Word: richest
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...business, many firms he launched or resuscitated were obscure, technical in orientation or uninfluential. But since May 1990, he has spent an estimated $40 million launching the European, an English- language newspaper to compete with the International Herald Tribune. A self-made man who is reportedly Britain's ninth richest, with a net worth of $2 billion, Maxwell has earned wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative that he scheduled simultaneous...
...whose resident are elderly or retired, is bracing itself for the arrival of Euro Disneyland nearby. Says Mayor Philippe Mancel: "One realizes it's a lost cause to be against Euro Disneyland. Once Disney starts paying taxes, on a per capita basis, Serris will be one of the richest villages in France...
...each other with small bouquets of words: "Morning of blessings! Morning of light!" They have conjured a moment, and smiled, and passed, and then, poof! they are back on a miserable street among the pariah dogs. If people are poor and live in the desert, language may be their richest possession: Why not? It opens miraculously onto other worlds. The Koran, with its bursts of sonority and light, describes a paradise that has everything the desert does not: the sweetest water, cool shade, silken couches, wines that one can endlessly drink without getting drunk...
...real world and start paying our bill," said Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings of South Carolina. Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith advocated a surcharge on annual incomes greater than $100,000. "Some of our poorest people are fighting the war," Galbraith said. "I would like to see our richest people pay for it. It would be a fine expression of democratic will...
...problem is that the city was built with $50 billion put up by a now upset U.S. businessman. He also belongs to the Socrates Club, whose membership represents the nation's richest and most powerful private citizens. They, too, see F.X.K.'s readiness to sacrifice overseas investments as an expensive precedent...