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...first term "indicated that I was not, you know, a man of peace." He tried to remind Europeans that "America is a force for good. America is a force for liberty. America is a force to fight disease." He even conceded - this from a Texas oilman - that the rich nations of the world would have to "transfer out of the hydrocarbon economy...
...applied. Even as he criticized the "game," his allies sent out e-mails announcing that the man leading McCain's vice presidential search, Arthur B. Culvahouse, was - you guessed it - a former lobbyist. To make matters even more complicated - and absurd - Culvahouse used to lobby for Fannie Mae, the rich and well-connected mortgage company where Johnson previously served as chairman and CEO. (Full disclosure: Time Warner, the parent company of TIME, is another of Culvahouse's former clients...
...biofuels - have not yet been broached in Cameroon. Instead, politicians in Yaoundé have tried to ease the burden by cutting taxes and import duties on basic foods. And they have promised to review fuel prices and to build more refineries to boost fuel supplies. Although Cameroon has rich offshore oil deposits of its own, it has only one refinery in the Atlantic port of Limbe, the output from which is largely exported...
...Service like that used to be the purview of upscale hotels, private bankers and credit-card companies. But concierge firms catering to what Elliot calls the "cash-rich, time-poor" are now springing up all over. Katharine Giovanni, chairwoman of the U.S.-based International Concierge and Errand Association, says membership in her organization has doubled in the last two years, to around 650 companies. And Giovanni says those firms are no longer catering exclusively to the leisure class. Many concierge clients these days are harried two-career families who simply need an extra hand planning a child's birthday party...
...cocaine. For the most part, though, Quintessentially's clients-or members, as the company calls them-simply want to know where to go, and how to get past the velvet rope when they get there. "If you think about the early 21st century, there's more very, very rich people on the planet than ever before who all want that access and that level of service," Elliot says. "For most very rich people, they are that because they've been successful or smart in some shape or form. You find that everybody has something they really love...