Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid through the team "for expenses...
...over an Olympic champion's heart is obvious. And an ice show hardly knows what to call a star if she has won nothing more than a silver medal. Fratianne, who performs for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom on Ice, says, "It's kind of the difference between being rich and really rich. Maybe it cost me some money, but all I can say is, now I can live happily ever after...
...insistent. Dave Mahre sadly quit apple growing 22 years ago and took a job managing a ski area in order to support his burgeoning family, which numbers nine children. The Mahre kids were customarily dressed from the lost-and-found at the White Pass lodge, but the scenery was rich. Although school was an hour and a half away, the ski lift was just outside the door. "We finished our homework on the bus," Phil says, "and were off skiing and hiking as soon as we got home. We've spent the major part of our lives...
...lead to complacency, which blunts the ability to perceive new opportunities," says John Kao, a psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard Business School. "The money tends to put you in a different peer group, creating a sense of isolation and the need to seek others who are equally successful. Some rich people feel only they can understand each other...
They are not your usual ship of fools, isolated for metaphorical purposes on the bounding main. Singers, conductors, impresarios, the titled and untitled rich, all are of the world of grand opera, and it is to make a grand, operatic gesture that they have gathered aboard the luxury liner. Edmea Tetua, by common consent the greatest singer of the age, has died, leaving instructions that her ashes are to be scattered off her native island in the Adriatic. And this resplendent collection of egocentrics and neurasthenics is here to see that her wish is fulfilled with due theatrical effect...