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...dark-bereted shepherds who perfected the stunningly fast game of jai alai, they are in fact among Spain's successful businessmen. The dingy but bustling Basque industrial center of Bilbao (pop. about 450,000) is heavily oriented toward steelmaking and shipbuilding. The three Basque provinces are among the richest in Spain on a per capita basis...
...digging and shooting have paid off handsomely. Webb considers the Love pit one of the richest U.S. fossil finds in years, unequaled anywhere in the Southeast. Some specimens turned up in almost wholesale quantities. His team, for example, dug up so many saber-toothed tiger bones that they may help shed a totally new light on the ferocious-looking cats. Some were so young they still had baby teeth, others were 25 to 30 years old. (In appreciation of the Loves, researchers even named one new sabertooth species after them: Barbourofelis lovei...
...fact, bankers familiar with SAMA'S investments state flatly that the agency has little if anything to hide; the world's richest investor is also its most conservative. While other OPEC nations like Kuwait have a fondness for foreign land deals and high-stakes stock market plays, SAMA restricts itself to buying less than 5% of a company's stock. Explains a London banker who deals closely with SAMA: "The Saudis have an absolute terror of American politicians standing on the floor of the Senate and accusing them of buying up America...
...friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons, lies buried what may be one of the richest molybdenum deposits in the world, worth some $4 billion...
...River, the business school's handsome Georgian brick buildings stand in splendid isolation from the rest of the university. The B school even has its own barbershop. Founded in 1908, the school prides itself on being the oldest such institution in the nation* as well as probably the richest (its endowment: about $100 million), the best equipped (its 500,000 volumes form the world's largest business library) and the most prestigious. Dean W. Currie, the associate dean for administration and policy planning, scorns false modesty: "What we do is much too expensive for any other school...