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...Heath really restore dynamism to Britain by giving the relatively well-to-do a bigger break than the relatively hardup? Theoretically, such an approach might be just what is needed. Politically, it might prove a bad gamble. Labor was quick to alert Britons to the implications of the cutbacks. "It is a budget for strengthening inequality," said ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins. Former Prime Minister Harold Wilson touched an even more sensitive nerve. He charged that Barber had created a "two-nations" budget, recalling Disraeli's famous label for the Britain of haves and havenots...
...middle-class landowner (his landlord status accounts for the title of sheik). Mujib studied liberal arts at Calcutta's Islamia College and law at Dacca University. He lives with his wife Fazil-itunessa, three sons and two daughters in a modest two-story house in Dacca's well-to-do Dhanmandi section. Except for a brief stint as an insurance salesman, he has devoted most of his time to politics. First he opposed British rule in India. After the subcontinent's partition in 1947, he denounced West Pakistan's dominance of East Pakistan with every...
...plan is the result of one large landowner's wish to develop 11,000 acres on Hilton Head Island, a coastal oasis for well-to-do retired executives, who hotly opposed the B.A.S.F. plan. Fred Hack, president of the Hilton Head Co., asked the architectural firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to draw up a suitable land plan. What Planner John Galston of S.O.M. suggested is a regional plan to develop indigenous industry (fishing, farming, wood products), a step that he feels will create the greatest economic growth. As Galston sees it, "an artificially created economy" like B.A.S.F. would actually...
Moynihan described Harvard as "essentially a place where the well-to-do can give their children an education: the people here who aren't well-to-do are here because the well-to-do want them here...
Russell's civil rights stand was the legacy of a country boy-one of 15 children -whose ancestors had been well-to-do slaveowners. He possessed another Southern legacy: a love of politics fostered by his father, who became the state's chief justice. Young Richard was elected a state legislator at 23, speaker of the Georgia house at 29, Governor at 33. Two years later, he became the youngest member of the U.S. Senate...