Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Heidi: O.K., let me just tell you how I do it . . . In the history of this business, in one year, no one has ever been able to do what I do. I know 1% of the wealthiest people and the nicest people in the entire world, or maybe 1/ 2%. Every girl I select has some quality or value about her that I think is different from the rest...
...hike in gasoline taxes can be criticized as a broken promise since it hits the middle class hardest, but given that the typical driver will pay only about $33 more , a year, the burden is hardly staggering. The tax-rate increase on Social Security benefits for the wealthiest recipients (from 50% to 85%) is not onerous; in fact, it should be welcomed as a long-overdue step toward means- testing entitlement programs, which drive up the deficit more than anything else...
...were organizing a peasant co-op. Desperate not to lose the best of its youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident, who runs the local numbers game, to "buy" a 30-ft. sloop from police...
...Philippines, about 40 miles south of Manila. Many sex tourists return there again and again, and have established permanent relationships with not just the boys of the town but their families as well. According to Ronnie Velasco, secretary of the Center for the Protection of Children in Pagsanjan, the wealthiest pederasts buy homes, businesses, automobiles and other expensive items for the boys' parents. Some even "adopt" boys and take them home to Europe or America...
Cambridge is divided by the Census Bureau into 30 tracts, which the city has grouped into 13 "areas." The top tracts have a per capita income of about $42,000. Many of the banks lend heavily to the city's wealthiest neighborhoods...