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...indeed, in the wealthiest nation on earth, can a hospital withhold treatment from a child, prolonging his pain and suffering? Because he, like 37 million other Americans, has no health insurance...
Although he is one of Mississippi's leading businessmen and wealthiest citizens, Robert Hearin has moved quietly through his 71 years. The reclusive executive has amassed a fortune worth $200 million in oil and gas development as well as banking and insurance. To neighbors in the elegant Jackson suburb of Woodland Hills, "Big Bob" and his wife Annie were distant figures. But five weeks ago, Annie Hearin, 72, disappeared, the victim of a bizarre revenge...
...many ways, Arias' background is similar to Kennedy's. The son of one of Costa Rica's wealthiest coffee-trading families. Arias studied in both Europe and America and is known for his strong interest in cultural pursuits and intellectual life...
ALREADY, the economic policies of the Reagan era have redistributed $129 billion in income from the poorest 90 percent of the nation's families to the wealthiest 10 percent, as Robert Kuttner points out in The New Republic. Although the stock market has more than doubled in real value since 1981, the wealthiest 10 percent of people own 90 percent of all stock, 88 percent of all bonds, and 95.4 percent of all trusts. At the same time, the amount of revenue brought in from corporate and income taxes on the top incomes has actually dropped. America's poorest have...
...wealthiest Americans have garnered enourmous gain from the profligacy of the Reagan administration. Now that the time has come to pay the bills, they should not expect the people that benefited least and suffered most from the Reagan economic policies to make sacrifices unless they themselves are willing to do the same...