Word: richest
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Finally, I find the administration policy deceitful, misleading and petty. Students are led to believe one thing and then slapped with petty fines and huge inconveniences. For the richest university in the world, and one that charges its students close to thirty thousand dollars each year, this policy is insulting and greedy...
...messy powers of the heart were left to the poets. But cognitive theory could simply not explain the questions we wonder about most: why some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain buoyant in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds...
...regressive measures proposed in recent memory. Families with income levels of $1 million and more would be paying only around 61 percent of what they paid before the measure, which means that the huge loss in government income-tax intake would go almost entirely into the pockets of the richest families in America. But it is clearly the middle-to low-income families that will suffer from the inevitable resulting cuts in social programs...
...involve huge exports. Just a few seeds--or, in the age of biotechnology, a few cells--can give a foreign company the raw materials to mass-produce a profitable medicine or fertilizer or pesticide. The question has become more urgent over the past couple of decades because the richest sources of such natural products are tropical rain forests, which are generally found in impoverished Third World countries...
...only writer I know who has footnotes in his fiction," says Frank Marshall, who directed Congo. Raves Spielberg: "He has maybe the richest imagination of anybody I know. And he grounds his fantasy in such contemporary technical reality that he can make the reader swallow just about anything." Need a for-instance? Take Jurassic Park, page...