Word: richest
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...wealthier than Cuyahoga, of course, and therein lies one of the ironies of the Southern California area's financial fall. With a population of nearly 2.6 million and a median household income of $47,774, Orange is the fifth largest county in the U.S. and boasted the fourth richest county government before the crisis. As famed for its political conservatism as for Disneyland and aerospace giants like McDonnell Douglas, Orange County was the birthplace of Richard Nixon and gave Ronald Reagan the largest margin of victory of any U.S. county in his presidential races. "It's incredible, really," says Mark...
...respected World Bank economist who has helped devise a reconstruction plan that includes selling off a handful of state-owned industries and cutting the 45,000-strong bureaucracy in half. "Aristide's strategy of stitching together society is working," says Gregory Mevs, whose family is one of Haiti's richest...
...Business School, Harvard's richest and possibly its most fiercely independent branch, currently denies that it is participating in a capital campaign...
...addition, Time's list includes 39-year-old Bill Gates, a Harvard dropout and America's richest...
...served flan. Luncheon had been arranged with a caution befitting one of the world's richest fugitives. Nine weeks ago, TIME's reporter in Bogota, Tom Quinn, received a call from a go-between: "The Cali guys have an announcement to make. Do you want to talk to them?" A week later, after an introductory phone chat and a roundabout journey to the rendezvous, Quinn found himself dining in a modest apartment in downtown Cali, a tidy industrial city in the Cauca Valley currently under occupation by 4,000 Colombian antidrug commandos and a CIA anti-crime task force...