Word: interest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Justice William Rehnquist reported savings of between $5,000 and $15,000 and property in Arizona. Justice Thurgood Marshall seems to be living on his $72,000 salary, reporting interest receipts of less than $1,000 from a savings account...
...Khan was asked whether he intended to maintain his grandfather's famous racing stables. "I'm not much for sport," replied the prince, then 20. "I don't know what I'll do with the horses." Quickly enough the young heir developed a passionate interest in what he described as "a game of chess with nature"-the breeding of horses -and today he reigns supreme over the French horse-racing establishment. His sport has led him into a bitter dispute over a multimillion-dollar string of Thoroughbreds...
Moving behind the scenes, the Aga Khan had made a separate bid of $9.3 million to Boussac's receivers for 144 of the stable's horses, as well as $1.3 million for the Murty stock. Arguing that it was in the interest of Boussac's creditors to see the equine assets sold to the highest bidder, a bankruptcy court in Paris overturned the Murty deal, ordered the American to hand back his 56 horses to the receivers and told him to wait with other creditors for the return of his money...
Osborn seems to do nothing more than reuse the ingredients of The Paper Chase for his new novel--a glamorous setting, a love interest, a perceptive but inexperienced protagonist coming up against uncompromising traditions. The Associates reads like a novelization of the bad TV movie which it will undoubtedly become...
...energies to computer modeling and mathematical analysis of governmental issues. In addition, he gathered raw statistical data from countries all over the world to allow accurate research in comparative government. He wrote a flurry of articles and books explaining his research; and other political scientists gave him their support. Interest burgeoned in the quantitative approach to social science, and soon it became a respected and integral element in the study of governments...