Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schlesinger hears an echo from the 18th century, when armies used to maneuver around each other. The one emerging in an inferior position often surrendered quickly so that it could live to fight again. "We march television cameras instead of troops," he says. Warfare that used to seek land, wealth or subjugation now is aimed at the mood in Washington or Qum or Moscow or Riyadh...
...wide social message: it is not necessarily a religious phenomenon. It is not antiChristian. In fact, Muslims really regard modern Westerners as a species of pagan. Ironically, some of the resentment has been aroused by the emergence of oil-rich classes within the Islamic countries themselves. With that wealth came a widening gap between rich and poor, a dangerous ambivalence of rising expectations and an anxiety that old ways might be endangered. The resentment of modernization is not anything so simply and piously self-abnegating as a wish to avoid luxury; it is also a bitterness at being forced...
...million blacks. There has been no change in the white minority government's long-range plan of dividing South Africa into a "constellation" of nominally independent states, in which blacks have the appearance of autonomy but whites continue to hold most of the real power and the wealth...
Though nobody likes rationing or higher taxes, the economy is destined to suffer even worse reverses if Congress fails to act. OPEC's prices are all but certain to keep climbing in 1980, draining wealth out of the U.S. economy and into the bank accounts of foreign oil exporters. The price rise will help slow the consumption of gasoline still further, of course, but the inflationary impact will quickly spread throughout the whole economy, since crude oil price increases affect not just automotive fuel but all petroleum products. Enacting a gasoline tax would not only slow consumption while providing...
...hint of freckles. Much of what happens to them is intended as dramatic improvement on the work of the original scriptwriters, Matthew and Luke. Mary's father, for instance, is crucified for criticizing the government. Joseph's family has come down in the world, its ancestral wealth having been snatched from it by greedy King Herod. Joseph has been an anti-Roman terrorist. When Mary claims to be pregnant with the Messiah, a Jewish court sentences her to death by stoning. In the nick of time, Joseph intervenes to save her, accepting the paternity of the child...