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...relied on the plentiful reserves on the Norwegian continental shelf for almost all their output; last year that area off the country's north and west shores accounted for more than four-fifths of the two firms' production. That bounty has made this nation of just 4.6 million people rich. Government taxes on the country's oil business--Norway is the world's fifth largest exporter by volume--have helped bloat Norway's national pension fund to around $350 billion. But those good times couldn't last forever. With fields beginning to dry up, oil production has slid...
...It’s a gift. I could never have gotten into Harvard because I can’t think logically, I can’t reason. But I’m rich in imagination, inspiration, intuition. That’s the gift of dyslexia...
...platform at South Station as soon as their bags are packed on Commencement Day, departing to better serve thy country and thy client.I hope I’m not one of them.It’s not that I’m averse to going corporate or getting rich or following the crowd, and I don’t begrudge my classmates’ taking strangers’ gilded candy. For many, New York is a two-year Ivy League after-party, replete with company cars, expense accounts, and corporate junkets. Is it really so surprising that so many graduates...
...from their families. There is one person I know who’s not doing finance,” he says, of a friend who did not go to Harvard. “She’s a party planner, but she gets support from her parents, who are rich.” Missing from the equation are those neither in finance nor children of wealthy parents...
...Masaki, 21, a good-looking but not yet successful host, laments the change. "The whole of Kabukicho has been affected. No rich people are walking in the area, and our customers got younger." Another host, 23-year-old Ren, agrees. "I have been in the business for five years, but this change is a real shock. I could meet all kinds of people, great for my networking for the future, but customers got younger and staff got younger as well, and it is boring...