Word: richest
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...three of the world's largest and richest oil companies been caught cheating a major OPEC oil-producing nation out of $6.1 billion? Or was it simply that the OPEC producer was attempting to blame the oil companies for the missing money in order to cover up its own administrative incompetence...
...Which ones? If you own Chrysler stock, you've just been swallowed by the richest industrial company in the world. If you own Exxon, your corporate giant has become bigger and therefore more powerful...
Luis Barragán wins his profession's richest prize...
...last week was a classic. What happened, apparently, was that Nelson Bunker Hunt, one of the world's richest men (see following story), set out with some associates to accumulate immense hoards of silver last year. Their buying helped drive up prices from $6 per oz. in early 1979 to $50 two months ago. The Hunt group then seemingly borrowed against its silver profits to buy other commodities and stocks. But the $50 price of silver could not be sustained, and when it began to slip the whole pyramid began to tumble...
...suspect. The police arrived in time to stop the sedan and arrest the driver. Her identity was a shocker: Jean Struven Harris, 56, the well-groomed headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School in suburban Washington, which for 74 years has educated the daughters of some of America's richest and most prominent families...