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...results have been explosive. Huge deposits of minerals, including, at Jabaluka in the Northern Territory, the richest known uranium deposits in the southern hemisphere, lie beneath the earth. No less than 15% of the total land area of Australia is owned or controlled by Aboriginal groups and councils. Some 700 land claims, covering 50% of the Australian landmass, await determination by the courts, and more are coming in every day. This avalanche has caused legal and bureaucratic gridlock. Few Aboriginal groups accept mediation by whites. No two groups agree on land use. Some, for instance, think that tribal land should...
...that Del Vecchio first got to know Brooks. Growing up near Cortina, he worked summers in the tool department of his father's eyeglass factory?a business that eventually grew into the market-leading Luxottica Group and made the family one of the richest in Italy. Though far from the U.S., Del Vecchio and his compatriots knew to revere Brooks Brothers, thanks to Fiat magnate Gianni Agnelli and the legendary trips he took to New York City to load up on his favorite button-down shirts...
...always in trouble,” the pessimism is widespread. Many problems have plagued the league, but the most commonly cited is a so-called disconnect between players and fans, which has led to dislike. As Klosterman puts it, most basketball players are “likely the tallest, richest, blackest person in almost any room in America, a nexus of physical, financial, and racial minorities. You have almost nothing in common with [them].” Yahoo! Sports columnist and former player Kenny Smith reached the point where he asked himself, “Is the league a bunch...
...analogy, because money isn't flowing from poor people's pockets straight to the rich: the pie is getting bigger for everyone. From 2000 to 2005, pretax income for the bottom half grew 15.5%. The rich just got a larger cut of overall growth (a 19% gain for the richest 1%). Perhaps better, then, to call it the big-slice theory...
...otherwise forbidden as usury by the Church at the time. The journal American Banker wrote in 1990 that "a good case can be made for crediting [the Templars] with the birth of deposit banking, of checking, and of modern credit practices." It certainly made them some of Europe's richest and most powerful financiers. The Templars have been described as taking crown jewels and indeed entire kingdoms as mortgage for loans, and they maintained major branches in France, Portugal, England, Aragon, Hungary and various Mid-Eastern capitals. The group controlled as many as 9,000 estates, and left behind hundreds...