Word: auric
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...facilities of a business hotel?conference rooms, restaurants and the like?but in a tasteful English country-house style rather than in anonymous airport decor. And if you've got the time, it's got a 27-hole golf course?the setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film?and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older?previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept...
...facilities of a business hotel - conference rooms, restaurants and the like - but in a tasteful English country-house style rather than in anonymous airport decor. And if you've got the time, it's got a 27-hole golf course - the setting for James Bond's game against Auric Goldfinger in the 1964 film - and a new $20 million spa and racquet club. It's also rich in history. The present clubhouse was built between 1790 and 1813, but the 142-hectare estate is even older - previous occupants have included Queen Elizabeth I and King Charles I, who was kept...
Wall Street and Fort Knox are still there, of course, but their mystique is fading fast. Not even James Bond's nemesis Auric Goldfinger would try to rob the fort anymore; bullion is in a two-decade-long slump. Nowadays, real money doesn't glitter or clink. It blinks across the world's computer screens. More wealth is created--or destroyed--in an instant than J.P. Morgan could have comprehended. Net-savvy investors are reaping the rewards and assuming the risks of controlling their financial destiny...