Word: wealth
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McNamara himself once believed in the same political games Tip advocates. But his four years at Harvard with Democrats who ridiculed the U.S. and its political system turned him toward the Republicans. McNamara points out that Tip knows better than most how to redistribute wealth but he doesn't know how to create it. Not surprising, considering that only five months out of Tip's 69 years were spent in the private sector...
Most of the N.F.L.'s wealth and worries flow from television, and the strike represents a crisis for both industries. Renegotiations and readjustments between the league and the networks and between the networks and their advertisers could be devastating all around. At 30-sec. rates ranging from $80,000 on an NBC Sunday afternoon to $150,000 on an ABC Monday night, advertisers had been prepared to spend $400 million this year for the attention of pro football fans...
...restaurants, catering, dairies, one of the world's largest wine and spirit companies and a vast gambling network. An avid gardener and stamp collector, the hotel tycoon managed to work a mere four hours a day and once said, "I do not want to become a prisoner of wealth, weighed down by responsibility...
...fresh and at least three hours in length--has few parallels. For pure hysteria, last year's tour by the Rolling Stones and the current Who circuit following the release of their new album are close comparisons. But Springsteen's shows did not simply arrest and frenzy people. The wealth and breadth of the New Jerseyan's songs forced the packed crowds to think and feel and suffer and contemplate as well as celebrate. Springsteen sent his crowds careening down his carefully detailed highways and turnpikes at varying speeds and over plenty of rough terrain. This artist refused to click...
Senators also criticized him for the size of his personal wealth, saying he was one more in a line of millionaire appointees. At one point, when Feldstein stated that he was worth $750,000, Sen. Donald W. Reigle Jr. (D-Mich.) angrily walked to the witness table and presented documentation showing that, including personal savings, the 42-year-old professor is worth $1 million...