Word: rich
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...keep those promises. (He was right, but it was still boring.) Peterson made $1.88 billion when Blackstone went public last month. Here was an opportunity for statesmanship that you would have thought Peterson would be unable to resist. Like Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Sr., he could be the rich man who speaks the truth to other rich folks about the need to pay their taxes. Yet there has been silence from that corner. Maybe Peterson has found a better use for his billions than securing his reputation for vision and honesty. What that could be, I cannot imagine...
...these young adults are doing much more than merely surviving. Their medical histories are rich textbooks for teaching doctors and future patients about how to overcome cancer--not just the initial dangers of the disease but also the late-stage complications of the surgery, chemotherapy and radiation that saved those young lives. "We know that we will see more and more long-term survivors," says Dr. Melissa Hudson of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. "Now we need to monitor them as they age, to understand how we can best help them to preserve and maintain their...
...previous two days. It's a linkage he'll undoubtedly make again and again as he builds his message in the coming months and tries to reinvigorate his campaign. "I've been asked by some of the media, 'Senator, the two Americas you talk about, is it the rich and the poor?' No. It's not. The two Americas are the very rich and everybody else...
...Barack Obama was delivering a speech on urban poverty, Edwards went after the fat cats in his own income bracket with real fervor. "We have the greatest economic inequality we've had in America since the great Depression," he said. "We're now made up of a few rich people who are doing extremely well and everybody else. Washington's response has been 'Greed is good. Take care of the lobbyists. Take care of the special interests.' There's another two Americas that exist in this country: there's one for the lobbyists, for the special interests, for the powerful...
...first, represented by many congressional Democrats, argues that it is past the time for America to leave. The best thing that could happen now is for the U.S. to pull out as quickly as possible, force the Iraqis to take control of their destinies and compel the oil-rich gulf states in the neighborhood to get off the sidelines. In this view, leaving Iraq would deny al-Qaeda its best recruiting tool, a large U.S. military presence in the Middle East. Along the way, the U.S. could save the $10 billion a month that it is spending...