Word: chelsea
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...clubs that could buy the best players from rivals in Germany, France and Britain. Today, however, global capital markets may be starting to play more of a role: Manchester United is traded on the London Stock Exchange, and one of its largest shareholders is American. The west-London club Chelsea look set to debunk the maxim that success can't be bought, following its acquisition by ?migr? Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, who has added close to $200 million to the team's war-chest for buying as many of the world's best players as they can find...
...which is $150. But if you avoid melons and Kobe beef it's about the same as London." I doubt it. London real estate is as absurdly inflated as its Page 3 girls. Two months ago a businessman paid ?27 million for a flat in Chelsea. Ordinary people - nurses, teachers, oil barons - can barely afford to live here. My own apartment is considered a steal, but it seemed less so when a council-tax bill for ?2,546 arrived last week. When I called the council help desk to ask how the council tax differed from the 17.5% Value Added...
...remember many Chelsea fans complaining when Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich bought their London football club last year; what counted was the size of his pocketbook and the amount that he was prepared to spend on talent. (Of course, Chelsea's supporters have always been a mercenary...
...There is a lot on the schedule,” noted Chelsea Y. Grate, a high school senior from Houston, Texas, who says she’ll most likely be moving to Cambridge in the Fall. “I just got here an hour ago, I have no idea what I want...
...Mary had just wrapped up his sophomore year, making him only slightly older than Chelsea Clinton, but he was researching and writing her mother’s speeches. Meanwhile, Muscatine, who went on to have a substantial role in the writing of Clinton’s bestselling memoir Living History, let him crash in a house she and her husband planned to eventually tear down. “There were delays, so I basically lived in a huge mansion by myself in Bethesda for eight months,” says O’Mary...