Word: richest
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...week Central American Airlines, owned partly by former Sandinista officials, inaugurated service between Managua and Miami, its rented Boeing 727 less than half-filled with passengers lured by a bargain $275 round-trip fare. Said CAAL director Herty Lewites, the former Minister of Tourism: "I want to be the richest man in Nicaragua." Backed by $1.75 million from a Nicaraguan-born millionaire living in Greece, CAAL hopes its thrice-weekly flights can undercut state-owned Aeronica, which charges...
...There is plenty of money in this state,"Stevens says. "We're the third richest state inthe country. It's the priorities we need tochange. We need to invest in human beings ratherthan businesses...
...South America's most primitive peoples. Swooping over the jungle canopy in helicopters and small planes, 80 Brazilian troops and government officials have spent the past three weeks dynamiting airstrips used by thousands of garimpeiros, or prospectors. Lured to the Brazil-Venezuela border by one of the world's richest deposits of gold, the garimpeiros have not only damaged a precious patch of rain forest but have also threatened the survival of the Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Stone Age tribe...
...second book dropped off best-seller lists. Forbes evicted him from its annual list of the 400 richest Americans. And he was forced to begin restructuring $100 million in bank loans to his troubled Atlantic City casinos. Curiosity mounts. Is the Trumpster headed for the Dumpster...
...THIS point, there is little rational reason for Republicans to oppose the Democratic plan. The House proposals call for a combination of increased income taxes on the rich and a capital gains tax cut. According to conservative theory, the richest Americans would not lose money as long as they increase their capital gains investments sufficiently. But the majority of House and Senate Republicans still refuse to make this compromise--primarily because their political careers rest on mindless and irresponsible "no new taxes" soundbites...