Word: richer
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...even as he grew richer, al Fayed could not achieve his most cherished goal: to become a British citizen. The Fayed brothers' applications for citizenship stalled in the early '90s following the release of the report. It did not matter that they had paid millions of pounds in taxes annually, or that all four of al Fayed's children by his second wife are British. So al Fayed struck back in 1994 and revealed to the Guardian that for more than two years he had supplied Tory Members of Parliament with cash and free stays at the Ritz Hotel...
...owned entirely by the Mormons. The largest producer of nuts in America, AgReserves, Inc., in Salt Lake City, is Mormon-owned. So are the Bonneville International Corp., the country's 14th largest radio chain, and the Beneficial Life Insurance Co., with assets of $1.6 billion. There are richer churches than the one based in Salt Lake City: Roman Catholic holdings dwarf Mormon wealth. But the Catholic Church has 45 times as many members. There is no major church in the U.S. as active as the Latter-day Saints in economic life, nor, per capita, as successful...
...name and image of the King without the company's permission. If you do not desist, its minions will visit upon you what might be termed, in the vernacular, a hunka hunka burnin' litigation. And you will lose, because this company is bigger and richer than you are and has been down this road before...
Computers might one day be capable of expressing themselves in vivid prose or fluent poetry, but unfortunately they will still be computers and have nothing to say. The gap between human and surrogate is permanent and will never be closed. Machines will continue to make life easier, healthier, richer and more puzzling. And human beings will continue to care, ultimately, about the same things they always have: about themselves, about one another and, many of them, about God. On those terms, machines have never made a difference. And they never will...
Garry Kasparov's loss need not concern us. He went home $400,000 richer, and he will be back to play again, probably be in better form than he was this time. Deep Blue's victory is not our defeat. It should simply challenge us to reaffirm the importance of human creativity in our lives. As the technological revolution continues and as all of us leave here to fight its battles, we would do best not to lose sight of our most impressive and powerful asset: the human spirit...