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...reputation as being in good financial shape when I was appointed," Pusey says. "But I saw that the University that was presumed to be the richest in the world was in desperate need of money...
...software billionaires have become national heroes. For a brief period this year, Wipro's Premji was the second richest man in the world, after Bill Gates. (Wipro's stock price subsided in April, though Premji's net worth is still estimated at more than $11 billion.) The techno-tycoons are admired because they have earned fortunes in one of the world's most competitive industries without any under-the-counter help from Indian bureaucrats. In the early 1990s, in fact, the software lobby got the government to remove import duties intended to protect local firms from software products sold...
...software billionaires have become national heroes. For a brief period this year, Wipro's Premji was the second richest man in the world, after Bill Gates. (Wipro's stock price subsided in April, though Premji's net worth is still estimated at more than $11 billion.) The techno-tycoons are admired because they have earned fortunes in one of the world's most competitive industries without any under-the-counter help from Indian bureaucrats. In the early 1990s, in fact, the software lobby got the government to remove import duties intended to protect local firms from software products sold...
...Landowski--"My mom's parents were Palestinians, and my dad's were Jews from Poland"--struggles with the farm her husband has left her and tries to think of something profitable to grow besides tobacco. She complains to a sister-in-law, "We're sitting on some of the richest dirt on this planet, and I'm going to grow drugs instead of food?" And on farms nearby, Garnett Walker III, nearly 80, a widower for eight years, maintains a long-running battle with his neighbor Nannie Rawley, 75, over her refusal to use pesticides on her apple orchards, thereby...
...Bush and the Republicans say everybody deserves the same tax cut, fully satisfied that the richest will reap the richest rewards; Gore and the Democrats say the best thing to do is to focus on those who need it more. Bush wants an expensive renovation of Social Security; Gore wants to put a new coat of paint on it. Bush tends to hold truck with the private sector; Gore is convinced government has its duties and can perform them admirably, if nourished. Gore seems a little more strenuous about the environment, Bush a little more stingy with our national influence...