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...During the week, Gupta uses the plane to train engineering students and flight attendants. On weekends, under the billing Aeroplanet, it is open to the public and school groups. Poor villagers and students attending government schools can visit for free. "Passengers" check in, receive boarding passes and climb a steep metal staircase to enter the plane. Flight attendants then run them through the safety procedures (schoolchildren get the extended lesson), serve them snacks and cold drinks and answer questions about how an aircraft works. (One pupil recently asked if there was a horn to tell the other planes...
USAGE The phrase was coined to mock the economic inequality that some say started with Ronald Reagan's "trickle down" theory. But this is, at best, an imprecise analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...Poor Dartmouth, which enters the Harvard game with a winning league record for only the second time in 10 years, will soon return to the more familiar climes of .500 and below...
...packed auditorium of nearly 700—drawn perhaps more by her star power than the subject. Portman’s appearance at the Harvard Business School yesterday focused on her work with the Foundation for International Community Assistance (FINCA), which provides financial services to the poor in developing countries, and was part of a national college tour to increase support for microfinance, the practice of making small loans to poor individuals in developing countries. She said she had known nothing about global poverty and microfinance until her senior year at Harvard, when the circumstances of a close acquaintance...
...assets estimated between $35,007 and $175,000, he is ranked number 358 out of 435, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. It is because of Obey's humble roots that he has endorsed John Edwards for President in 2008. Edwards' message about the Two Americas - one poor and one rich - so appealed to Obey that he called up the former North Carolina Senator and offered to endorse him just days after the 2004 election...