Word: richer
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Menten grew progressively richer by speculating in stocks and art objects, filling his 20-room mansion with more art works (his collection includes paintings by Nicolaes Maes, Francisco Goya and Jan Sluyters), and building up millions of dollars in real estate holdings. His undoing began last spring with publicity that the firm of Sotheby-Mak Van Waay would auction part of Menten's art collection in Amsterdam. The same Israeli journalist, Haviv Kanaan, who had been accumulating evidence against Menten for decades, alerted the Dutch press and, once again, the government. The press, led by Hans Knoop, editor...
...first two movements were the most successful; the Scherzo proved extremely demanding for the strings. The triumphant fourth-movement Allegro needed, quantitatively, more than the single doublebass present, and qualitatively, a fuller and richer brass sound, especially from the trombones. Nevertheless, the concert in its totality was impressive and gratifying. Under the right conditions, there's no reason HRO can't be a consistently fine orchestra, and the group sounds as if it is well on the right track right...
...particular talents, of great diversity, because we know that students are going to learn as much from each other as they will from the faculty and from examinations and papers. And if we can put together a student body of widely diverse backgrounds and talents, they will have a richer educational experience learning from each other than they would otherwise...
Starting with Jackson Pollock, one can easily think of a dozen modern American artists who have not had retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again...
Kentucky's Cumberland Plateau is a region a little larger than Holland, and potentially a lot richer. Forty percent of the world's coal is in the U.S., and of that, 35 billion tons of the highest quality lie buried in the Cumberland ridges. In addition, there is what Caudill calls "the temperate zone's most varied forest" as well as many arable valleys blessed with abundant rainfall...