Word: riches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just walking to get my mail when I heard this sound," he said. "Sometimes I find a cappella groups sound flat, but their sound is so filled out, so rich...
...pilfer manufacturing secrets from label maker Avery Dennison. Another Taiwan-based executive goes on trial in early April, charged with attempting to buy the secret formula for Bristol-Myers Squibb's cancer drug Taxol for $400,000--just one of many alleged plots to fleece R. and D.-rich pharmaceutical firms. Last spring a Gillette consultant went to prison for trying to market secret designs of the company's Mach3 razor to competitors such as Bic. And a small Maryland soft-drink distributor claims that Coca-Cola Enterprises, the bottler partly owned by Coke, used wiretapping and other shady tactics...
Saudi Arabia is a land rich in oil and privileged royal princes. Yet it is so tight for cash that Crown Prince Abdullah, who is running the show for the ailing King Fahd, has boldly cut the budget. And he is reportedly sending out "Abdullahgrams" to spendthrift nephews, demanding that they reverse their habit of ignoring telephone and electricity bills or face service cutoffs like ordinary Saudis...
...Fuck You," I wouldn't be able to recommend it more highly. Instead, it just sucks in a genial bar-rock kind of way. I could single out some songs for being egregiously inferior, but why rub their in it? The Pretty Things deserve to be every bit as rich and famous as the Stones, but this is not evidence likely to sway anyone. Benjamin L. McKean
...very unusual for a wealthy, well-connected person to get the death penalty," says TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "I don't think there has been a case like this." Celebrated past recipients of the death penalty such as Julius and Ethel Rosenberg or Caryl Chessman were neither rich nor powerful, and gained their status as a consequence of their trials, Cohen says. More recently, capital punishment was pre-emptively rejected in the O.J. Simpson case. But Capano had no legendary gridiron past, and a wholly unpleasant present. Although the scion of a wealthy real estate family and a mover...