Word: richest
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...days following Jobs' canny capitulation. What change in Apple's circumstances justified this startling re-evaluation? Besides buying stock, Microsoft propped up the tottering Macintosh platform by pledging three years' worth of Mac versions of its office software and cooperation with Apple on upcoming products. Apple's richest boon, though, may be psychological; by promising to publish Mac software into the next century, Microsoft lets Mac customers and developers alike trust the platform to exist that long. And Apple cultists don't need much encouragement to stay psyched. "Macintosh customers have proved to be incredibly stubborn," says Roger McNamee...
...there's plenty about Macintosh that's worth controlling. Gates' richest prize may be Apple's intellectual property, both silicon-and carbon-based. The graphic designers, software gurus and other artsy types who constitute the Mac's most fervent cadres are a disproportionately influential market niche. Some two-thirds of all Websites are thought to have been created on Macs. "It's very attractive to Microsoft to have access to cutting-edge Mac developers," says Kurt King, an analyst with San Francisco-based Montgomery Securities, "particularly in areas like video streaming and other graphics technologies that represent the likely future...
ECONOMIC BACKDROP At 18, a girl named Victoria became Queen of England in 1837. Her 63-year reign, the longest in British history, spanned an era in which the country became the world's richest and most powerful. Colonial expansion reached its zenith; Britain ruled about 25% of the world's lands and population...
...richest woman around has been in mourning for her late husband so long that her sorrow has become a career. Her family can't console her; the managers of the conglomerate she heads are afraid to challenge her. Then her death-in-life is changed by a humble--actually, a quite arrogant--horseman named John Brown. He speaks boldly to her and rudely to her children. He takes her on long walks, gives her counsel; most important, he makes her laugh. She is, again, a woman in love. Gossips derisively call her "Mrs. Brown...
...Richest 5% $188,962 54.1% Top 20% $109,411 35.4% Second 20% $52,429 13.0% Middle 20% $34,106 6.7% Fourth 20% $20,397 4.4% Bottom...