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...than mention its important role in meeting increased demand for agricultural production? Meanwhile, the author fails to mention that Peru was the first world exporter of fish meal in the 1960s and '70s, when considerable foreign investment took place, and that its vast natural resources make it among the richest countries on the continent...
...even as the top rate of income tax was cut sharply. As a result, almost three-fourths of taxpayers now pay more in Social Security levies than in federal income tax. A large majority of Americans pay more in total federal taxes than they did in 1980, although the richest 10% pay less...
...battle with cancer, he was eulogized -- and rightly so -- as a man who had transformed American merchandising and perfected a hands-on management that instilled a sense of team enthusiasm among the 380,000 employees he liked to refer to as "associates." In the process, he became America's richest person, his family's wealth estimated at $23 billion. But he also became the patron saint of a down-home style of megawealth; eschewing the fancy trappings of power, "Mr. Sam" drove an '88 Ford pickup truck and hopped around the country to visit stores, take the pulse of consumers...
...Harvard degree. Even if I were rich enough to buy the United States, I'd still have papers to write, reading to do and finals to take. It's not like going to Harvard is a real job--I wouldn't want to retire from college. The richest people in the world have traditionally indulged themselves in education. Nestling into the lap of luxury will still send me right to the arms of Mother Harvard...
...Howards End, Forster's richest novel, has become Merchant Ivory's finest film. Elegant and powerful, accommodating collisions of class and temperament with the grace of a perfect Edwardian hostess, Howards End is the work to which all Merchant Ivory's other films have pointed and aspired...