Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frustrated Cambridge residents this week renewed a perennial town-gown conflict over the tax-exempt status of Harvard and MIT by demanding that city officials find ways to force "the wealthiest institutions and individuals in this city to pay their fair share...
...context of the world, those same young people, themselves so well off, may also sense how precarious their situation could be historically. After all, we as a nation make up 5% of the population of the earth, yet we consume 40% of its raw materials, and we are its wealthiest nation...
...about the ship's capabilities. "If all sails smoothly," went one typical newspaper account, "the mystery ship may be at work next year, scooping such metals as titanium, manganese, uranium, copper and nickel up out of the depths to add to the fortune of the world's wealthiest recluse...
Portugal thus began the last and possibly most difficult phase of a decolonization program that has already led to the independence of Guinea-Bissau and the formation of an African-dominated transitional government in Mozambique. When Angola (pop. 5,725,000)-the largest and wealthiest colony -achieves full independence on Nov. 11, the once vast Portuguese African empire will at last cease to exist...
...University degrees are comparable to high school diplomas in developed countries. The existing Teheran affiliate of the Harvard Business School gets its share of the bad marks, too. Part of the funds for it were raised at Iranian "charity functions," where members of the royal family lined up the wealthiest guests and stared at them till they contributed...