Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is known about this nimble entrepreneur is that he is a rich man, with a fortune of perhaps $100 million. He claims to own companies in Switzerland, Greece, the Middle East and Thailand, as well as ten or 15 firms in England. "There's many people behind me," he says expansively. "If I phone now for $40 million, tomorrow I see the $40 million in my pocket. From friends -- Saudi, gulf, Iraqi. That's all like a consortium. I am a front man." He is also a man gifted in the ways of global dealmaking, Swiss bank accounts...
...overcome. Rodgers' earliest childhood memory was watching her heroin-addict mother stick a needle in her arm. Until recently, Rodgers was lost in a haze of cocaine smoke and subsisted on leftovers pilfered from a fast-food restaurant. Now she sits in the Mandela House kitchen, which is rich with the smell of baking meat loaf...
...easy to go here if you're really rich because you can afford it, or if you're really poor because financial aid will meet your needs. But it's not easy if you're middle class," Zinman says...
...early admits who visited Harvard last week share a part in a disturbing pattern: While matriculating freshmen will become a model of Harvard's much touted "diversity," students admitted early are more homogoneous as a group. They are more male, more Northeastern, more prep school, more white and more rich, admissions officials...
...Craig Taucher 12 2 6 8 1 2 Josh Caplan 23 0 6 6 8 16 Brian McCormack 21 0 6 6 8 16 Kevin Sneddon 22 0 5 5 7 14 Scott McCormack 13 0 5 5 3 6 Brian Popiel 11 0 2 2 1 2 Rich DeFreitas 5 0 2 2 3 6 Scott Farden 4 0 2 2 1 2 Timmy Burke 2 1 0 1 1 2 Allain Roy 11 0 1 1 1 2 Greg Hess 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jimmy Coady 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals...