Word: richer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate is local-and intensely heated. "We've looked at the issue of equity over the years, and we've been stymied,'' says Bob Early, principal of the Taylor Ranch School in Venice, Florida, which raises about $20,000 annually. "This is a case of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Parents want their efforts to benefit their kids, and any program to redistribute funds is not at all popular...
Heady as that might seem at first, it may not be enough. "Life in the real world," Stoll writes, "is far more interesting, far more important, far richer, than anything you'll ever find on a computer screen." His advice to anyone spending more than a few hours online per day: Get out of the house! Meet your neighbors face to face! Grow tomatoes! Turn the computer off, for heaven's sake...
...Richer, busier and more celebrated than ever, supermodels do not need the meager $5,000 or so the New York shows offer them for an appearance. (The major European designers, by contrast, pay up to $25,000.) They have better-or at least more lucrative-things to do with their time. Supermodels today reap millions of dollars in advertising contracts; they lend their names to clothing lines, host TV shows, star in movies. From the gossip columns to the Oscar preshow promenade, they are stealing the limelight from Hollywood's film goddesses...
...that the events in the Bible actually took place. A parallel line of argument holds that the Bible is made up simply of legends crafted by the Gospel writers to serve a political agenda in the early days of the church. Modern archaeology has given contemporary scholars a much richer sense of the Galilean world, the social tensions around Jesus and the political challenges his followers encountered after his Crucifixion...
...November of his book, The Warren Buffett Way, helped spark a sudden rise in the stock price of Berkshire Hathaway from $16,000 to a record $25,000 a share (this is no penny stock). Since Buffett owns 42% of Berkshire Hathaway, Hagstrom's effort made Buffett $2 billion richer, at least temporarily. This is the biggest favor ever done to a subject by a writer, and Hagstrom has never even met Buffett...