Word: riche
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Berry and John Tolmie lost a close match to Godman and Rich Lees. They dropped the first set but took the second, with both tiebreakers going to 7-5. In the tense third set the advantage swung back and forth, as both teams had trouble holding serve, but Godman and Lees hung on to win, 7-5. Crimson, 7-2 at Palmer Dixes Tennis Center...
Leon Palandjian (HARVARD) d. Rich Lees (Temple...
Second Trips Through the Revolving Door Are Dangerous. Tower left the arms- control talks in Geneva in 1986 with the clear sense that after 25 years in public office, it was now time to get rich. With this sense of entitlement, he promptly lined up more than $750,000 in consulting work with six leading defense contractors. To believe Tower, he provided them with little more than the "enlightened judgment" they could just as easily get from reading the papers and dropping by a few academic think tanks. If true, it appears that Tower was vastly overpaid for his services...
Move over, Ben Cartwright. Some rich new cattle barons have come to town. In the past year Japanese investors have developed an appetite for U.S. beef- producing properties, including ranches, feedlots and packinghouses. Zenchiku, a major Tokyo-based meat importer, bought the 80,000-acre Selkirk Ranch near Dillon, Mont., last October for $13 million. A company called Mt. Shasta Beef, formed by Japanese entrepreneur Masa Tanabe and three California cattlemen, spent $2.2 million in January to lay claim to a 6,000-acre ranch in Northern California's Siskiyou County...
...faces increasingly in coming years. Medical advances are making it possible to buy things that were previously unobtainable at any price. (The Baby M. "womb renting" case is another example.) Meanwhile, the communications and transportation revolutions are breaking down international borders, making new commercial relations possible between the comfortably rich and the desperately poor. On what basis do we say to a would-be kidney seller, "Sorry, this is one deal you just can't make...