Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undertaking it. That is to be expected. As the holder of more dollars than it knows what to do with, the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency stands to gain much by caution and prudence, and to risk everything by impulsive actions that upset the world's finances. With enormous wealth comes large responsibility, and SAMA seems up to the challenge. -By Charles Alexander. Reported by Gisela Bolte/Washington and Adam Zagorin/Beirut
Oppenheimer and his wife Bridget live in a style befitting their wealth. Home is a colonial mansion surrounded by formal gardens in a northern suburb of Johannesburg. Decorations include paintings by Chagall, Goya, Renoir and Picasso, and bookshelves are lined with first editions of Lord Byron and other poets. Oppenheimer owns a stud farm where he raises prize race horses, and a 900-acre game preserve in eastern Transvaal...
John Brooks' Showing Off in America attempts to explain how much more confusing the status race has become, since keeping up can now mean an ostentatious demonstration of unpretentiousness. He offers two propositions: 1. In status competition, display of wealth evolves into display of style. 2. The most effective status-seeking style is mockery of status seeking...
...high-gloss entrepreneurs, Hollywood types and high rollers, as it was only three or four years ago-the most conspicuous of consumptions, to be sniffed from the most chic of coffee tables through crisp, rolled-up $100 bills. Today, in part precisely because it is such an emblem of wealth and status, coke is the drug of choice for perhaps millions of solid, conventional and often upwardly mobile citizens-lawyers, businessmen, students, government bureaucrats, politicians, policemen, secretaries, bankers, mechanics, real estate brokers, waitresses. Largely unchecked by law enforcement, a veritable blizzard of the white powder is blowing through the American...
...Care Hotline. One of his scripts catches the attention of Rick Heidelberg, a Wunderkind director-producer desperately looking for a property that will match his first, and only, success. Heidelberg must deal with a formidable studio head named Alexander Hellstrom, who is beginning to wonder if all of his wealth and power truly means anything...