Word: richest
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...signing of one of sport's richest contracts fulfilled Bird's wish for a new agreement by Saturday, one day after the Celtics open training camp...
Fishman is one of hundreds of thousands of investors, small and large, individual and institutional, who have scored handsomely in the great bull market that began on Aug. 12, 1982. For them, it has been a year of superlatives like "biggest" and "richest." Records have crumbled. Hundreds of billions have been made, at least on paper...
...mountains, it stretches 60 miles from the Grand Canyon in northwest Arizona up to the Utah border. Environmentalists, impressed by the region's spectacular scenery and rare wildlife, have wanted part of it declared a protected wilderness area. Developers, coveting the mineral deposits, among them perhaps the richest veins of uranium in the U.S., have been pressing for the area to be opened to mining...
...Japanese, television in essence means NHK, the world's largest, richest and most diverse public broadcasting network. Although there are 99 commercial stations around the country affiliated with the five major stations in Tokyo, the noncommercial NHK is watched as much as all the others combined. Like the BBC, NHK subsists on collection fees: 30.4 million subscriber homes pay $41 each year, giving NHK more than $1.24 billion to work with. The fee is optional, but almost no one refuses to make the donation...
...five researchers, including a Harvard graduate and undergraduate, are currently "walking the ground" and doing the "sweat work" to locate the richest sites, according to Williams. They are also talking extensively with the people who live in the area. "They've farmed the land, they know where the sites are," Williams explains...