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When a company's revenues grow 17%, as Microsoft's did in the past quarter, it might seem a little churlish to suggest its glory days are over. Its chairman, Bill Gates, even reclaimed his title as the world's richest man, after a widely published story claiming that the founder of Ikea had replaced him turned out to be so many Swedish meatballs. And Gates' baby, based in Redmond, Wash., is still by far the largest software maker in the world, with a healthy $56 billion in the bank and revenue conservatively expected to rise 5% next year...
...strikes at any time. The difference between the two countries' firepower and tactics could hardly be greater. East Timor (pop. 800,000), the half-island which celebrated independence on May 20, 2002, is one of the poorest countries in Southeast Asia; Australia (pop. 20 million) is the richest nation in the region. East Timor is pressing for a maritime boundary in the Timor Sea that is equidistant between the countries. Provisional arrangements over a sea zone known as the Joint Petroleum Development Area - 90% of whose taxes and royalties are East Timor's - will bring it about $4 billion. Over...
...Ralph. There’s a new girl in town (assuming that the term “girl” can refer to a 71 year-old girl-at-heart and “town” can refer to Palm Beach, Florida, one of the richest towns in the country), and her name is Lilly Pulitzer, creator of the brightly colored, Palm Beach clothing and lifestyle brand bearing her name. Lilly began her business in the late 60s, but today enjoys more buzz than ever as she whimsically prances barefoot into American popular culture, one wild flower shift dress...
...rights at this University, should do everything they can to be in attendance. Their presence will affirm that at the end of the day, the structures of power and privilege that hinder gender equality are the same ones that hold workers down. The world’s richest university and the object of Working Mother’s (misguided) approbation owes its women workers more than a pink slip and a girl-power press release...
...also the cushion of being worth nearly $10 billion as heir to the privately held Fidelity juggernaut. "She's cool and calm, and she works hard every day," says Eric Kobren, editor of the independent newsletter Fidelity Insight. "She doesn't have that air of being one of the richest people in the world." Or of managing one of the world's largest pots of money, $893 billion in mutual-fund assets...