Word: megarich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRUMP TAMER Switching from gabbing to grabbing, former talk-show host Merv Griffin outmaneuvered developer Donald Trump for control of Resorts International, the Atlantic City hotel-and-gambling company. The megarich Merv paid $364 million...
...street life mesmerizing. But New York is like the wedding cake in a bakery window: an exquisite excess of spun sugar covering a cardboard core. Beneath Manhattan's sheen is the New York of endemic corruption, failing schools, and racial tensions, a polarized city of 7.3 million where the megarich in stretch limousines look away from the 1.8 million living in poverty, more than 50,000 of them homeless. The city that prides itself on being the cutting edge of the future watches as corporations, promising artists and middle-class families flee its staggering costs and the country's highest...
ARRESTED. Paul McCartney, 41, megarich ex-Beatle and rock video star (Say Say Say, Pipes of Peace), and his wife Linda McCartney, 42; both for possession of marijuana, he for the fourth time in twelve years, she for the first time since 1975; in Barbados. Fined $100 each, the McCartneys returned to London, where Linda was arrested at Heathrow Airport, again on possession charges. Said McCartney: "I'd like to see it [pot] decriminalized...
Matt Houston (ABC, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.S.T.) is a megarich Texan who seems to have gone into the crime-busting business because he saw too much television. As played, with some finesse, by Lee Horsley, Houston looks a little like Tom Selleck, sounds a lot like James Garner and apparently borrows his wardrobe from J.R. Ewing. Houston has all sorts of technological niceties at his fingertips, from a computer to a whirlybird. At least he has the good taste to not get caught up in the futuristic excesses of Michael Knight (David Hasselhoff), who, in Knight Rider (NBC, Fridays...