Word: prosperous
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...Kong stock market. In the telecom business alone, Li-controlled companies have 60% of Hong Kong's mobile-phone market and virtually the entire fixed-line system. Bricks and mortar? Li is Hong Kong's property king. Now he and son have displayed highly advanced knowledge of how to prosper in the new era of telecoms and the Internet. Richard, for one, sees these talents as anything but local. "These are truly global transactions," he told TIME. The message: watch out world; Hong Kong isn't big enough for the Li family anymore...
...Ford Motor Co., Gillette and Philip Morris quietly added to their investments--nearly all built production plants with local partners, pouring more than half a billion dollars in direct foreign investment into Russia. In all cases, investors have developed a range of protection plans to help ensure that they prosper, even if that word is somewhat loosely defined...