Word: wealthiest
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...population?who received that aid are only half the estimated number of the needy and eligible. Increased by the recession and the growing activism of welfare rights groups, the rolls continue to grow in every part of the country. After 35 years of legislation and programs, the world's wealthiest nation seems caught in a paradoxical trap: the more the U.S. spends on its poor, the greater the need seems to be to spend more still...
Although there have been endless proposals launched, new housing has not kept up with demand in Cambridge. And with property values rising every day, there isn't much money to be made in low-to-moderate income housing, the level most sorely needed. Only the wealthiest of resources can acquire property and permission to build...
...Carnegie Report, which covered Harvard and others of the country's wealthiest institutions, agreed that "the situation is fast becoming worse as these cost increases continue to outpace income increases...
...work. The appearance is misleading. He is Daniel K. Ludwig, the quiet billionaire who has built a shipping, real estate and financial empire that girdles the globe. At 73, Ludwig is worth between $2 billion and $3 billion, which makes him one of the world's half-dozen wealthiest men. Now there are signs that his huge empire may not long survive him in its current form...
...pair of Europe's wealthiest banks decided last week that two can live richer than one. Adding a new dimension to the economic collaboration among Common Market countries, the Credit Lyonnais, which is France's second largest bank, and the Commerzbank, which is West Germany's third largest, formed a partnership. They stopped short of a merger, partly because Credit Lyonnais is owned by the French government, but agreed to coordinate both their operations and lending round the world. There will be a virtually unified network of branches serving clients of both banks and a free exchange...