Word: riches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rich roots of all this actually predate the past turn of the century, to 1882, when three striving journalists--Charles Dow, 31, Edward Jones, 27, and Charles Bergstresser, 24--started Dow Jones & Co. to pick up news and gossip and then peddle them to brokers, bankers and slippery speculators. In 1889 Dow Jones launched the Wall Street Journal, a four-page stock-and-bond paper. Price: 2[cents]. As Edward Scharff writes in his book about the company, Worldly Power, "The Dow Jones messenger boys and reporters hustled advertising and subscriptions while they made their rounds... Much of the financial...
...into his past impossible. He employed several doubles and never permitted himself to be photographed until late in life, after he had retired. Why such secrecy? Assassins from many nations hunted him. He had made his fortune by simultaneously selling arms to both sides in a conflict. He grew rich--and hated...
...recently gave a speech to managers of a fast-growing Silicon Valley company. Before I began, the CEO pulled me aside to tell me about the audience. He said they had all become rich from company stock options and didn't need to work anymore. The CEO explained that the managers stayed on because they were intrinsically motivated to make the world a better place...
SAFETY RAZOR King Gillette created the first safety in 1903. He saved millions of necks, and grateful shavers made him fantastically rich. He supplied 3 million razors and 36 million blades to the American troops in World...
...former coup leader's decisive victory is a sign of widespread popular anger at corruption and poverty in the oil-rich state. "Although he plans a referendum on changing the constitution, his economic policy will have to be more moderate," says Hoag. "Today's reality no longer allows for leftist economics." Washington denied Chavez an entry visa a year ago, but has said it would work with him if elected. After all, Chavez is just a feeling...