Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boast of his conquest of more than 500 women, ranging from "a distant relative of Emperor Taisho to almost all the top geisha." His unbridled admiration for Benito Mussolini -"the perfect fascist and dictator" -lingers to this day. Indeed, Sasakawa sometimes boasts that he is the "world's wealthiest fascist...
...some ways but not in others." Like other American ethnic groups, blacks also prefer the company of one another, and when they have a community such as Atlanta, it is easy to see why. The city remains the black showcase of the nation. Some of America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited by whites. Few white-owned ante bellum homes are more sumptuous than the black-owned mansions surrounded by dogwood and magnolia trees. Atlanta is said to be the only city in the nation that offers bus tours of the black sections...
...Cultural Center does not have any extensive access to private sources of funds. Many of Hillel's administrative costs are underwritten by the national Hillel organization. There is no corresponding parent organization for the Afro Center. Black foundations do not want to use their scarce resources at Harvard--the wealthiest private university in the world--when there are more immediate uses for that money. And because of Harvard's past history, there are not enough wealthy black alumni to support the center...
Speaking before a Business School audience of 50, John B. Fuqua, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Fuqua Industries, related several personal encounters he has experienced in his rise from the tobacco farms of Virginia to becoming majority stockholder in two corporations and one of the wealthiest men in the South...
...founder, is 30-year-old Kenneth Moss, a resurrected middle-class kid from Long Island and two-time dropout at Syracuse U. And self-made millionaire at age 26. Moss bought stocks in disposable thermometers after he left Syracuse and rode the crest of one of the wildest, wealthiest stock market waves in history...