Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Swamped by a wave of resentment, Johnson rushed last week to reassure the RJR board that he had intended all along to share the newly created wealth with the 15,000 employees who would remain after the breakup. "I wasn't going to take 18% of this company for seven people," Johnson told TIME in his first interview since the buyout offer. "If I'd known it was going to be in the newspapers, I would have said, 'Look, there's going...
...issues from zoning to animal research, Harvard gets its way in Cambridge City Hall--in many cases, City Councillors say, against the wishes of community residents. Some add that the University's wealth readily translates into political power on the local level...
...response, Harvard officials contend that their institution's wealth does not give it disproportionate influence in City Hall, and that the University's stances do not run counter to the public interest...
Marcos might also have expected immunity under a diplomatic convention that normally protects a foreign head of state from prosecution in a U.S. court. The charges against him, however, are based not on actions he took in his official capacity but on steps he took to enhance his personal wealth. More important, the Justice Department argued, the Marcoses were being indicted because they plotted with Khashoggi and others to fraudulently conceal their illicit activities after they became U.S. residents. "There was no asylum agreement that Marcos could be just as big a crook in this country...
...another Filipino politician who was born poor, Marcos regarded bribes and corrupt profits as perks of office; he skimmed millions, for example, from the country's cigarette-tobacco monopoly. But Seagrave estimates that the ex-dictator's fortune may be as much as $100 billion. Whence came that awesome wealth? Seagrave's answer is that Marcos had located and dug up part of a vast horde of stolen bullion known as "Yamashita's Gold...