Word: richest
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...appeal to the advertisers, though, with its time-honored, if a touch crass, pitch that it has the richest viewers of any broadcast network. It's true. If NBC were a neighborhood, you couldn't afford to live there. Its most platinum-plated drama, "The West Wing," has an average viewer household income of over $75,000 - $10,000 higher than the second-richest show, "Ed," also on NBC. (A fact that probably kept the incessantly quirky bowling-alley drama on the air despite its middling ratings - while other shows with more viewers but fewer SUV buyers got canceled.) Zucker...
...difficult to focus all this initiative and relate to peoples’ needs,” explained HOP advisor and Harvard Business School student Paul Pickering. “To me it’s just outrageous that there’s still homelessness in the richest country in the world...
DIED. J. PAUL GETTY JR., 70, reclusive philanthropist and one of five sons of oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, in his day considered the richest man in the world; after being treated for a chest infection; in London. Though American-born, Getty loved and primarily patronized Britain, officially changing his citizenship in 1997. Known in his youth as a man fond of drugs and parties, Getty withdrew, focusing on art and philanthropy, after two personal tragedies: the loss of his second wife to a drug overdose and the kidnapping for five months of his then 17-year...
PSLM deftly took advantage of the dramatic storyline that the world’s richest university was mistreating its impoverished workers...
...brewing colossus passed to his daughter and sole heir, Charlene de Carvalho Heineken, 48. She lives in London with her banker husband and their five young children, and she has no involvement with day-to-day operations. Karl and Theo Albrecht, the secretive German brothers who rank as the richest people in Europe, are withdrawing from the management of their firm, discount retailer Aldi. Sweden's Ingvar Kamprad, who created the IKEA furniture chain, has retired to a Swiss lakeside resort, leaving ownership of his empire to a foundation--and keeping everyone guessing whether any of his three sons will...