Word: riche
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continue to be game parks and an abundance of spectacular scenery, which draw at least one-third of all vacationing visitors. The menu is being broadened to highlight South Africa's unique heritage of European and African settlement, tribal and colonial wars, pioneer voortrekkers and legendary explorers--and its rich cultural...
...Sundance Film Festival, the actress changed her look from frumpy slacker to sleek ingenue and has been on a whirlwind of studio meetings. Strangers have stopped her to say they've seen bootlegged Blair Witch tapes or downloaded the entire film from the Internet. Still, Donahue is no rich witch. Her star may be rising, but she has a $1,000 car, lives in a seedy Hollywood neighborhood and is reluctant to accept just any new acting job: "I'm definitely not looking to do another horror film...
Billionaire commodities trader Marc Rich fled to Switzerland in 1983 after he was indicted for wire fraud, racketeering and trading with the enemy by allegedly buying oil from Iran. He now resides in a villa near Lucerne with a private harbor and a steel-gated boathouse...
...adjustment to the current hard-money limits and require full disclosure of contributors. "If a grand compromise is made," says Carney, "that could be the tradeoff: a soft-money ban in exchange for more hard money." That's still a long way from "one man, one vote" ? the rich will still get all the access when their man wins ? but maybe the influence wouldn't be as widespread, and as party-driven...
...things past. Los Angeles is, after all, one great big suburb dotted with strip malls and fast food chains--the rapidly evolving face of our country. Even those landmarks of luxury, Malibu, Santa Monica and Hollywood, are merely high class shopping centers with franchises that cater to the very rich. Restoration Hardware, Anthropologie, Pottery Barn and French Connection are just fancified version of their originals--TrueValue Hardware, Costco World Market and the Gap. You can't fool me Los Angeles, I know better. If this is where America is heading, count...