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The latest round of trouble came as BP's billionaire partners in TNK-BP, who operate under the name Alfa Access Renova, sought to block a $16 billion share swap and Arctic exploration deal agreed with Rosneft in January.
A Tale of Two Partners
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Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
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Then, billionaire investor Warren Buffett, whose annual letter to shareholders is one of the most widely read in investing circles worldwide, told the 35,000 shareholders attending Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting that they needed to read Dimon's letter.
CEO Jamie Dimon steers JPMorgan Chase through crisis
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This is difficult terrain for the son of a billionaire pitched against the son of a bus driver.
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They each will hold enough other shares to make them billionaires, at least on paper, if the IPO is successful.
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It was bought by a dealer who was convinced that tapestries would make a comeback in the vast new homes being built for dotcom billionaires.
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Carl, a reckless billionaire adventurer, has financed an expedition by an expert spelunker and diver named Frank McGuire Richard Roxburgh, to chart the unexplored portions of Esa'ala and discover a previously uncharted route through Esa'ala and back to the ocean coast.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Sanctum
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It was bought by a dealer who was convinced that tapestries would make a comeback in the vast new homes being built for dotcom billionaires.
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Not to mention that one reason the Tamil situation doesn’t arise much here is that the US has no dog whatever in that fight – no AIPAC pushing for US policy in that arena, no billionaires from the region paying Democrats and Republicans campaign money to push US support for the related countries, no scumbags like SLC arguing for “Hama Rules” on the Tamil Tigers.
Matthew Yglesias » Do Critics of Israeli Policy Whine Too Much?
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It's an early example of the American billionaire practice of architectural salvage.
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It was a troublesome end to a damaging week for the billionaire.
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The former dictator, a palace-dwelling billionaire, was the picture of bedraggled abjectness: mouth forced open, eyes staring glassily.
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The American billionaire was forced to step down from a previous banking role after an inquiry by US regulators.
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He always said he wanted to become a billionaire.
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It's tough at the top," he said. "It's tougher at the bottom," riposted the billionaire.
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But many of today's internet billionaires started out as insubordinate slackers, similar to the high school students who crowded Beijing's internet bars and - allegedly - neglected their schoolwork.
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The confirmation that the security services are sufficiently interested in Deripaska to keep files on him and his associates is likely to add to pressure on the minister to provide more information about his contacts with the Russian billionaire.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over ...
Joyce Purnick: Bloomberg's No-Shows
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RIO DE JANEIRO—Billionaire Brazilian businessman Eike Batista , the Latin American country's wealthiest man, increased his stake in independent driller OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, the company said in a regulatory filing late Monday.
Batista Lifts Stake in Oil Company OGX
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Billionaire Greek shipping mogul Aristotle Onassis is credited for kicking off the private-island trend in 1968 when he married Jackie Kennedy on Skorpios, his paradise in the Ionian Sea.
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Yet while it all makes for good copy, the battle of the billionaires is a misnomer.
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The deal flies in the face of convention - most teams in the yacht race are bankrolled by billionaire businessmen and international companies.
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Billionaire Nochi Dankner, who owns Israel's largest holding company and a daily newspaper, is a regular.
In Israel, rich and famous flock to wonder rabbi
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He is set to enter an elite league of billionaire team owners.
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American billionaires have been out of favour with the public and politicians since the 2008 financial collapse.
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A Russian billionaire comes along in the middle of the night and buys a club for a pound.
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Well, that's how it worked with an octogenarian billionaire boyfriend of mine anyway.
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They were designed for oil sheikhs, oligarchs and tech billionaires.
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One Russian billionaire bought five of the fakes before the fraud was discovered.
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His billionaire wife is remembered either as very religious or beautiful, but certainly not as a radical political activist.
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An expanding Indian economy has spawned a rising number of millionaires and billionaires, which is leading companies such as Daimler AG, BMW AG, Audi AG and Jaguar to introduce more luxury cars in the market.
Ferrari to Sell Cars in India
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He always said he wanted to become a billionaire.
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Jump forward to today as this asshat is playing golf, eating cake and sucking up to billionaires while ignoring a situation that the rest of the world, anyone with a television or the internets, and even Mr. Bill saw coming, using torture to get confessions, shooting our own citizens, and giving photo ops priority over rescue efforts?
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A foreign billionaire is conducting his legal affairs in the British courts under a cloak of anonymity granted by senior judges.
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A favourite of Russian billionaires.
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He is now the highest-earning sportsman in the world and is expected to become a billionaire - the first sports person to achieve this - within the next decade.
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Is your sympathy with the millionaires or the billionaires?
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Most of the Russian billionaires and multimillionaires control raw materials and their associated industries.
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Such an undertaking would not be too much of a surprise: billionaire Madeleine Schickedanz' steady accruement of the company's stock prompted scuttlebutt that she was preparing to delist Germany's biggest department store chain and divide it up--although Chief Executive ThomasMiddelhoffThomas Middelhoff told the company's annual general meeting last May that such a scenario was not in the cards.
Schickedanz Ready To Delist KarstadtQuelle?
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Russian oil billionaire and owner of Chelsea Football Club, Roman Abramovich, is in talks to take a controlling interest in Italian freighter operator, Ocean Airlines.
Abramovich to buy Ocean Airlines
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The numbers of millionaires and billionaires has grown in direct proportion to the numbers condemned to lives of misery and hardship.
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Here the night will be boogied away by an A-list celebrity smorgasbord of movie stars, moguls, sports personalities and billionaires.
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The first is to become a billionaire.
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It's an early example of the American billionaire practice of architectural salvage.
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The billionaire broadcaster was ordered to do jury duty after getting out of two previous summonses by citing conflicts with her work schedule.
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Leonardo's best feat of brainstorming is the illustrated stream-of-consciousness notebook "Codex Leicester," which is on loan to the show from that billionaire brainstormer Bill Gates.
The Real Leonardo
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We witness the love of a trainer for his boss's wife, of a billionaire for the tantrically adept psychic, of a trainer for a broken-down stallion, of a corrupt owner for money, fame and Jesus.
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Amid all the contradictory accounts of how an aspiring actress became acquainted with the media billionaire one consistency has emerged.
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For it is with alarm that the billionaire recently watched some of his fellow oligarchs fight multibillion-pound lawsuits in London.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg heads toward a third term bruised by a surprisingly close re-election battle that exposed lingering anger over his reversal on term limits and his prodigious campaign spending.
Despite Spending $100 Million On Campaign, Bloomberg Pulls Off Narrow Victory
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*** Media Australian billionaire James Packer and his investment firm Consolidated Press Holdings confirmed the acquisition of a 17.88% stake in Australia's Ten Network Holdings, signaling the return of his family's interest in free-to-air television.
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-1 Local billionaire calls chatline, brings her home,
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The prevalent brand of Islam, Ismailism, is moderate; its spiritual leader, the Aga Khan, is a billionaire society figure in Paris.
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The Indian billionaire said the agreement does not include a financial settlement.
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Both parties represent the interests of Wall Street, the corporations and the thin layer of multimillionaires and billionaires who dominate American politics.
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Steve Wynn, multi-billionaire casino magnate.
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The oil giant's relationship with the four billionaires who control the other half of its Russian joint venture has always been strained.
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Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
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And I am a lifelong Oprah fan so getting to see her up close -- and she looked radiant that day with her jewels blinging as a billionaire's should -- was a real treat for both of us.
Erica Kennedy: Why Oprah's Favorite Things Show Makes Me Sad
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What does Warren Buffett, billionaire investor and economic soothsayer, like this week?
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While the country needs international help to scrap its nuclear submarines, a newly minted Russian billionaire can pay a huge sum for an English soccer team.
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Six of the country's billionaires have some involvement in Yukos.
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Predictably, the petro-billionaires had put their foot in it again.
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The deal would divorce the FTSE 100 group from the quartet of difficult billionaires who own the other half of the business.
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The solar system belongs to footballers, film stars and billionaire industrialists.
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Aaron Sorkin based his supersmart and superbly funny screenplay on a contentious book, Ben Mezrich's "The Accidental Billionaires," so everything that's seen isn't necessarily to be believed.
'Social Network': Password Is Perfection
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If you have billionaires who are willing to pump money into your football club then who can stop them.
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His grandstanding has increased suspicions that England have become unwitting accomplices to the ego trip of an eccentric billionaire.
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Because while the 26-year-old internet tycoon is estimated to be worth $6. 9bn, he is a paper billionaire.
The real problem isn't banks, it's investors
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he became a billionaire when he won the lottery
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It is made possible by a vile culture of greed, but it is only millionaires ripping off billionaires.
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Back in the 1990s, when accessing the web involved a complicated assortment of computer programs with names like "Trumpet Winsock," who could have imagined a day when billionaires would tweet about fellow billionaires?
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But the self-made billionaire is an autocrat who seems not to understand the essentials of democracy.
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Vance Holcomb, a billionaire rogue environmentalist, is trying to protect the lurking creatures, while the Berg Brothers, a Disney-style entertainment conglomerate, crave the land as residential real estate.
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The most obvious way of getting a huge wad of cash to the Manager to spend on a team of fancy world-class internationals is by acquiring a multi-billionaire Oil Tycoon.
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He was then faced during the presidential election campaign with an unexpected challenge by Ross Perot, a billionaire from Texas.
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A billionaire asks a binman for a hundred pounds.
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A favourite of Russian billionaires.
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But the houses are largely leased to embassies, ambassadorial residences and a sprinkling of billionaires.
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The deal flies in the face of convention - most teams in the yacht race are bankrolled by billionaire businessmen and international companies.
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Who cares about the squabbles between billionaires and millionaires?
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Demonstrators led by students demanding cheaper and better state education blocked roads and lit fires as police used water cannons and tear gas to quell the latest outcry against the conservative billionaire.
Chile hit by violent protests
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Jon Huntsman, the billionaire American chemicals magnate, is in his office surrounded by cuddly toys.
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The accusation was that the Foundation uses 'the system' to create prizes that ultimately benefits 'the system' - a kind of rarified, new boys 'network of billionaires creating new frontiers for their businesses.
Amy Y. Day: A New Kind Of Blowin' In The Wind
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Observe as a cabal of billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging war and short-sheeting the citizenry.
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SAGAL: So our question is, Mayor Bloomberg, you are aware you are a billionaire, is this not true?
N.Y.C. Mayor Michael Bloomberg Plays Not My Job
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Amid all the contradictory accounts of how an aspiring actress became acquainted with the media billionaire one consistency has emerged.
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The billionaire was dressed in sandals and shorts.
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Meanwhile, she has been conspicuously palling around with a billionaire.
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He warned of higher taxes for billionaires and the country 's wealthiest firms.
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Now, the pompadoured billionaire and reality-TV star may have outplayed a much bigger rival in a bid for Ms. Kluge's crown jewel: her mansion.
The Fall of the House of Kluge Leads to the Rise of the Yard of Trump
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They're just billionaire Russians and things.
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And the billionaire Russian looked a picture of misery slumped into his executive seat with Blues teetering on the brink of yet another damaging loss.
The Sun
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They will draw up a list of targets that could include Russian billionaire oligarchs as well as Kremlin chiefs.
The Sun
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Times when you felt anything was possible and that all you needed to become a billionaire was an idea.
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Think of Davos and those thoughtful, caring billionaires.
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The cable operators 'PSA is a dishonest, steaming pile of FUD about neutrality, calling it corporate welfare for dot-com billionaires who want you to pay more for their services.
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Asked for advice on how to become a billionaire, he used to joke that the trick was to choose your parents wisely.
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One Russian billionaire bought five of the fakes before the fraud was discovered.
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He's a graduate of what Catalyst calls "the prestigious Broad Superintendent's Academy," and what Parents Across America founding member Sharon Higgins, author of the blog The Broad Report, calls "billionaires and their henchmen.
Julie Woestehoff: Rahm as "Da Bachelor" and Other Reality TV Ideas for Chicago's Schools
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Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
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For years, Woody Johnson was known as the reclusive billionaire owner of the Jets.
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U.S. private-equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts will reduce its stake in one of Australia's leading media companies through the 4.1 billion Australian dollar US$4.16 billion sale of Seven Media Group to West Australian Newspapers Holdings, which consolidates the media assets of billionaire Kerry Stokes.
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It is not just billionaire oligarchs who are buying.
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But he died a lonely reclusive billionaire.
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This group of millionaires and billionaires believes in the biblical adage that says, to whom much is given, much is required.
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- Internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will publish a 30,000-word "e-book" focused on business and success, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Mark Cuban E-Book: Dallas Mavericks Owner To Reportedly Publish Piece On Business, Success
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He is listed as the billionaire whose net worth declined the most, a hefty 91 per cent.
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Asked for advice on how to become a billionaire, he used to joke that the trick was to choose your parents wisely.
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More recently, it's been a case of millionaires striking against billionaires.
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Read: eMeg and her fellow million-and-billionaires would soak in lavish returns while California's budget continues to shrink.
Carly Schwartz: Stiff & Vague Meets Engaging & Informed
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Thaksin, a former billionaire tycoon, put in place populist policies during his two-term premiership between 2001 and 2006 that won the hearts of the rural and urban poor and gave them a sense of political entitlement they now miss and want to regain.
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That's where the oil company that made Adams a billionaire is based.
'Not going anywhere': Titans still see future in Vince Young
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She then went to work for one of the most powerful, influential billionaires on the planet.
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His brilliance was soon noticed and he became a spy before joining the world of banking to become a billionaire in no time.
The Sun
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The Google accord may make Yang more vulnerable in a proxy fight against billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who says Yang botched the Microsoft negotiations.
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And what's the point of being a tech billionaire if you can't go build yourself a spaceship?
Times, Sunday Times
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Many cabinet ministers have mysteriously become rand billionaires.
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While those with money live a life of fabulous luxury and efforts are made to attract more and more international multimillionaires and billionaires to the capital, hundreds of thousands of people live in indescribable poverty.
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The founders - who become billionaires.
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The population is skewed toward the seriously rich, with billionaires, according to the local gossip, having driven out the millionaires.
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The billionaire Muslim prin ce took one look at the island 50 years ago and decided then and there to carve out a corner of paradise.
In Search of a Billionaire's Paradise
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The Saudi billionaire has given a vote of confidence to world stock markets with plans to invest 4bn riyals on shares in Europe and the US.
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The only thing 'gold-plated' about British pensions is the gold-plated BS that's being spread about them by self-serving but hardly self-made billionaire heirs like ... well, like "Harold Jonathan Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Britain's Massive Anti-Austerity Strike: Could It Happen Here?
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Reports this weekend suggest Russian billionaires are moving money out of western bank accounts in anticipation of sanctions.
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Many cabinet ministers have mysteriously become rand billionaires.
Times, Sunday Times
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The wealthy and I include among these the unmortgaged-to-the-hilt owners of more than one sizeable property and the discreetly wealthy with hundred-thousand-euro-plus annual incomes, as well as the more obvious million- and billionaires, however; the wealthy seem only to get wealthier.
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Soon after that, he become one of the very few people in America to become a billionaire through stock options alone.
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But the houses are largely leased to embassies, ambassadorial residences and a sprinkling of billionaires.
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That deal was also opposed by French retailer Groupe Casino,an archrival of Carrefour, which jointly controls CBD along with Abilio Diniz , CBD's chairman and 74-year-old billionaire.
Wal-Mart Again Eyes Carrefour's Brazil Unit
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Also new to the ranking: 27 billionaires from China, including Li Shufu, whose automaker, Geely, announced plans to buy Swedish brand Volvo from Ford in December.
Bill Gates No Longer World's Richest Man
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The first is to become a billionaire.
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In India, IT is not just breeding billionaires and Internet addicts.
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When we last left our hero, he had survived a horrible snubbing by toupeed Priceline.com pitchman and former stock-holding billionaire WILLIAM FUCKING SHATNER, only to be verbally attacked by a disgruntled Star Trek fan.
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More recently, it's been a case of millionaires striking against billionaires.
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Now Mr. Roth, the hard-charging billionaire chairman of Vornado, is doing what can best be described as readying himself for the next Merrill.
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Relegation would have made that practically impossible, but all options are now open to the billionaire.
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Even playgrounds should collect tolls – when it is billionaires in the sandpit.
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A billionaire who had a fetish for huge buildings and computerized offices wasn't likely to do much meditation.
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He is promising to build'a revolution' on a shoestring budget and has refused to take money from billionaire backers.
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Five hundred and fifty billionaires possess the same amount of wealth as the poorest 2 billion people on the planet.
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The arguments by the erratic billionaire that automatic limits on congressional terms would create more efficient government are simply unrealistic.
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I'm sure there are millionaires and billionaires who think it only fair they pay more tax.
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When he had been selling used cars, Hank had been skippering a billionaire's yacht across the Aegean.
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Ms. Guinness was once married to Spyros Niarchos, son of Greek shipping billionaire Stavros Niarchos, but divorced in 1999.
So Happy Together! Sightings of Daphne Guinness and Bernard-Henri Lévy Continue
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With three listed companies, the 71-year-old billionaire has been Asia's foremost dealmaker for over a half-century.
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One of the oligarchs is German Khan, the billionaire founder of the Alfa Group.
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Other billionaires born outside of Britain find London conducive to their bank accounts.
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For it is with alarm that the billionaire recently watched some of his fellow oligarchs fight multibillion-pound lawsuits in London.
Times, Sunday Times
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Phil Anschutz is the city's most elusive important billionaire - the builder of Staples Center, remaker of Downtown, and erstwhile Hollywood morals guru and news media mogul.
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But the Russian billionaire's reaction cannot have been great.
The Sun
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Arsenal welcome an American billionaire to their board: Will he be enough to keep a certain Uzbek oligarch away?
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The billionaire Australian mining magnateand founder of Fortescue Metals is surveying a scene of frenetic activity.
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He's a billionaire, but he can't spring for a 37-cent stamp?
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There's no secret network of plutonomic billionaires funding the overthrow of Obama?
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Stand straight, shoulders back, bitch-beams set to "stun" - for we are in the presence of Ms Joan Collins, who, as Alexis Colby-Carrington, committed murder while wearing a tam-o'-shanter, then proposed to a billionaire in a coma.
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Perhaps it will give some of those billionaires their cues to skiddoo instead of whining about their inability to compete.
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He is set to enter an elite league of billionaire team owners.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros on Tuesday predicted a "stop-go" economy for the United States, saying fears of inflation will drive up interest rates and choke off growth.
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But Kluge, separated from her billionaire husband, John Kluge, and Wilder, who is divorced, have reportedly weekended together on Nantucket, on Maryland's Eastern Shore and at Virginia Beach.
Hot Couples
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The days of the club being owned by a wealthy local benefactor have been surpassed by billionaire owners from around the globe.
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But there is no argument about his creative genius, which has made him a dollar billionaire.
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She then went to work for one of the most powerful, influential billionaires on the planet.
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Old age is no respecter of persons ; It'strikes beggars and billionaires alike.
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According to records released by the New York City Board of Elections, the cartoon billionaire received 27 write-in votes out of the 299 that were cast.
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For the judge to use precedent set in matters concerning Arab billionaires is ridiculous.
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Trump is what is often called a "blue-collar billionaire" his assets are all paper and non-liquid.
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The American billionaire was forced to step down from a previous banking role after an inquiry by US regulators.
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The arguments by the erratic billionaire that automatic limits on congressional terms would create more efficient government are simply unrealistic.
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In fact, Zedillo's slavish obeisance to the NAFTA treaty and the neoliberal global economy has increased the number of Mexicans who live below the poverty line, some say by as much as 40%; dislocated millions of peasants and forced them into the edges of the cities to live in subhuman conditions while seeking work; made the Army a power in the civilian government roughly equal to where it stood in 1968 when the UNAM massacre took place; choked off needed funding for the systems of free education and health care; increased dramatically the percentage of Mexicans who are illiterate, addicted, and committing crimes; and produced more billionaires than have France, Great Britain, and Spain combined.
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It is made possible by a vile culture of greed, but it is only millionaires ripping off billionaires.
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The billionaire who built Las Vegas's Bellagio and Mirage casinos, said he and partners will invest at least 4 billion patacas in Macau.
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A man who walked out on his injured wife and their kids for his billionaire mistress - whom he calls a cunt, publicly.
New McCain Ad Congratulates Obama
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In a post of mine in October 2009 that I called 'Jazz means Democracy,' I wrote: 'It doesn't matter if you're old or young; man or woman; a billionaire or a bellboy; free or inside a prison; Muslim or Christian, or Jew.
'Train' Out of Iran
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Another pitfall is the urge to state the obvious: No one, Gladwell concludes in a chapter comparing a high-IQ failure named Chris Langan with the brilliantly successful J. Robert Oppenheimer, not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires and not even geniuses-ever makes it alone.
Daring Fireball
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The deal would divorce the FTSE 100 group from the quartet of difficult billionaires who own the other half of the business.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then billionaire Ross Perot hinted he may rejoin the presidential race as an independent.
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Wall Street bankers, billionaire oilmen like the Koch brothers, and other big business special interests that are funding the Republican assault on labor and the middle class have way too much power already.
Mike Lux: Bankers' Holiday
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The Davos summit has been going on for decades, mostly as a place for billionaires and millionaires to mingle.
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Predictably, the petro-billionaires had put their foot in it again.
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Like the queen, he doesn't carry cash, so the billionaire has to scrounge cab fare from colleagues.
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If you have billionaires who are willing to pump money into your football club then who can stop them.
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He crosses the boulevard but lingers in the alley, notices the shining tower but dwells on the seething slum, nods to the self-made billionaire but nestles all the long icy night with the gin-soaked stewbum.
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The deal allies the bank with a billionaire investor known as an astute judge of value, who emerged during the financial crisis as an outspoken advocate of investing in America's future.
Buffett Bets $5 Billion on BofA
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L'Osservatore Romano, HO/Associated Press VATICAN RENDEZVOUS: Pope Benedict XVI, center, was greeted Wednesday by United Arab Emirates billionaire Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair, right, at the end of the weekly general audience at the Vatican.
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There were only a dozen or so billionaires, most of them oil tycoons.
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Billionaires are usually fairly secretive about the exact amount that they're worth.
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We've vowed to help these unfortunate million- and billionaires lose their confusion, pain and gelt… er, guilt, despite their oppressively large bank accounts.
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They will draw up a list of targets that could include Russian billionaire oligarchs as well as Kremlin chiefs.
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Is your sympathy with the millionaires or the billionaires?
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It's working: Two and a Half Men, starring Kutcher as bighearted Internet billionaire Walden Schmidt, opened to 32.8 million viewers (including seven days of DVR use), and continues as TV's most-watched comedy (and No. 2 scripted series overall, behind only NCIS).
Exclusive: Chuck Lorre Talks Two and a Half Men's Turnaround and His "Painful" Year
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Obama will call his surtax "the Buffett Rule" in honor of the billionaire who wants higher taxes and who once said of class warfare that there was indeed a class war in America and his class, the very rich, were winning.
Robert Kuttner: Muddled Class Warfare
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In an economic field, I suppose you become a billionaire.
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Financier Peter G. Peterson is a private-equity billionaire and former Nixon Secretary of Commerce, who has militated for 30 years against Social Security and related programs, while also promoting reduced taxation for risky financial transactions.
Paul Kleyman: Pew Boomer Report: Attitude, Not Analysis on Social Security
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AFP ran ads mocking proponents of fossilfuel regulations as elitist brats more concerned about their "three homes and five cars" than about the jobs of working-class families (an incredible rhetorical gusher from a privileged billionaire like David, who lives the high life in Manhattan, where he hobnobs with the richest elites at society galas, while also owning a mansion in Aspen where he can curl up in luxury and sip fine wine from his collection of 5,000 vintage bottles).
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Unfortunately for him, he is a competent computational demonologist, which is why he's sent to the Caribbean to deal with enigmatic billionaire Ellis Billington, who is running the sort of caper that Her Majesty's Government would usually send James Bond to deal with (if being James Bond wasn't an automatic "do not hire" flag these days).
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I know the super rich and some have worked really hard -- I can think of one billionaire who came from nothing and if his lavishness has been a bit gross, I know his bank account got a good kick recently.
Betsy Perry: It Isn't "Chic" to Cut Back -- It's Crucial
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First he was in Sudan, where he managed part of the Saudi billionaire's assets.
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Reports this weekend suggest Russian billionaires are moving money out of western bank accounts in anticipation of sanctions.
Times, Sunday Times