Word: wealth
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Though drug abuse is most likely to make the headlines when it involves Hollywood celebrities and sports stars, the problem is also epidemic among doctors, lawyers and other professionals in high-pressure, fast-paced work environments. In the high-tech firms of California's Silicon Valley, sudden wealth has created a thirst for instant gratification and expensive highs. One former employee at a computer company tells of being the office cocaine pusher for three years. Says he: "It was made to order. I had an instant clientele--hundreds of people who worked with...
What can be said of a man so wrapped up in himself? Judging from what he did with his billions, Getty had little idea of the social responsibilty that vast wealth confers. In the American lore of the superrich, his place is just below William Randolph Hearst, the builder of San Simeon and another driven megalomaniac...
...member of the commission charged with recovering Marcos' wealth said some commissioners, including chairman Jovito Salonga, would go to Hawaii to inspect documents Marcos took with him, which now are held by U.S. Customs officials in Honolulu...
...believed to have spirited out of the country over the years. She announced the creation of a Cabinet-level Presidential Commission on Good Government, headed by former Senator Jovito Salonga, 65. One of the panel's tasks will be the recovery of an estimated $2 billion in "hidden wealth" that the Marcos family has surreptitiously squirreled away in the U.S. and Switzerland. Salonga said he had already secured counsel in New York City to block the possible sale of more than $300 million in Manhattan properties allegedly owned by the Marcos family. "We will have no trouble recovering the assets...
Although the former Haitian honcho's wealth is apparently not as great, Duvalier and his entourage don't exactly have to travel on the budget plan, either. While the Mitterand government decides what to do with him, Duvalier and his family are currently holed up in a posh Parisian hotel that wants them out. "They're bad for business," said the manager...