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...Burns and his Democrats swept the haole Republican-controlled state legislature. Over the years, the A.J.A.s broadened their political base and helped Burns win the Governor's residence three times. The community as a whole prospered. Still no individual A.J.A. could even begin to match the wealthiest of the islands' 35,000 Chinese Americans, who are gifted entrepreneurs and speculators; at the same time, most of the top corporate posts remain in haole hands. But for many A.J.A.s, what mattered most was their rising influence and acceptability, symbolized in 1968 when the Pacific Club in Honolulu, long...
...eight days the agony imposed on one of the nation's wealthiest families was intense. The Edgar M. Bronfmans of New York, whose Seagram liquor fortune and other assets exceed $1 billion, feared that 21-year-old Samuel Bronfman II was buried in a box with a meager ten-day supply of air and water steadily running out. He had been kidnaped, and the kidnapers had demanded a ransom of $4.6 million, the highest ever asked in the U.S. Frantically the family tried to comply, but hitches kept developing. The wait seemed interminable...
Genuine Fear. Although oil revenues have made Nigeria Black Africa's wealthiest nation, inflation has ranged from 30% to 80% since January, when Gowon acceded to civil servants' demands for pay increases of up to 133%. That provoked widespread strikes among workers who were less generously treated. A wave of walkouts in public services left the country without adequate power or water supplies for weeks at a time. Meanwhile, student demonstrators, angry over Gowon's announcement that he would be unable to keep a longstanding promise to return the country to civilian rule by 1976, forced three...
Frustrated Cambridge residents this week renewed a perennial town-gown conflict over the tax-exempt status of Harvard and MIT by demanding that city officials find ways to force "the wealthiest institutions and individuals in this city to pay their fair share...
...context of the world, those same young people, themselves so well off, may also sense how precarious their situation could be historically. After all, we as a nation make up 5% of the population of the earth, yet we consume 40% of its raw materials, and we are its wealthiest nation...