Word: wealthiest
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...more disconcerting I am, the better I like it," Italian Publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli once told a friend -and he disconcerted almost everyone. Born into one of Milan's wealthiest families, he was an avowed Socialist at the age of 20 and two years later became a Communist. But Feltrinelli scored his only real success as a capitalist publisher. In 1957 he smuggled the manuscript of Doctor Zhivago out of Russia, and published it in defiance of intense Soviet and local party pressures. After the Zhivago furor, Feltrinelli drifted further leftward, becoming a financial angel of Italy's militant...
Brazil is the only purely capitalistic country in the world. The wealthiest five percent of the population can shoot striking workers at will, fix prices, monopolize, cartelize and avoid paying taxes, reported an exiled Brazilian congressman...
...only card-carrying feminist is N.O.W. Member Elizabeth Richards, 59. A Radcliffe graduate, the wife of a lawyer and a member of one of Red Oak's oldest, wealthiest families, she joined N.O.W. "as soon as they opened up their membership...
...already doing a book on the four richest men in the world [including Howard Hughes]." That was not unusual; all through the project, Irving disguised the fact that he was interested only in Hughes by saying he was doing a book on four of the world's wealthiest men. He did, however, brag to his cousin Mike Ham-ilburg that he was deeply involved in a book exclusively about Hughes. Meyer claims that he never showed the Phelan manuscript to Irving. Late last week Meyer was subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles that will...
Furthermore, various government departments spend $7,500,000 yearly on such queenly perquisites as the royal yacht ($2,097,500), air travel ($1,750,000) and stationery ($115,000). Beyond that, the Queen-clearly one of the world's wealthiest women-has a vast inherited private income...