Four centuries after the Golden Age, a period of prosperity and artistic achievement that transformed Amsterdam from a fishing village into a wealthy hub of international trade, this delightful city is in the middle of a new renaissance.
And his encouragement of global capital makes a lot of sense, even if it does mean allowing a lot of wealthy people to pay a lower rate of tax than their cleaners do.
Imagine a group of wealthy businessmen walking down the street of a major American city, when they stumble upon a baseball game being played in a local park.
Firstly, Hashimoto Tooru is not a scion of a wealthy political dynasty.
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Last week a wealthy client of mine and the lawyers representing him were told for the first time, by me, that his losses related to a hedge fund investment recommended by one of the largest private banks were caused by Madoff.
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It was the Dutch, nearly a century later, starting in 1598, who wrote the very first chapters, introducing sugar cane, importing the first slaves, and giving the island the name by which we know it today, Mauritius, after a wealthy shareholder of the Dutch East India Company.
Since India has hundreds of millions of small farmers, and a powerful bloc of wealthy farmers, that's a tax break few politicians dare challenge.
Hiatt is a member of the Democracy Alliance, a group of wealthy liberal donors led by Rob McKay, an heir to the Taco Bell fortune.
In 2005, I was sitting at a table in the middle of Silicon Valley talking to a group of wealthy real estate investors.
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It is a collection of photos found on Instagram that capture young wealthy people enjoying a life of minimally employed opulence: They're on lavish vacations, taking the most expensive modes of transportation, showing off designer belongings and doing all manner of things with and to champagne.
After ruminating on it for almost 15 years, Mr Fowles turned in a work that was full of Shakespearean and Homeric allusion, the story of an English teacher in Greece who falls under the sway of a fabulously wealthy magician, the Magus of the title, and his parallel fantasy universe.
Fridman is also a member of the super wealthy AAR consortium, a private equity firm that represents the four oligarchs that own half of TNK-BP.
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Indeed, big, slow-moving ships owned by a collective of wealthy white Americans tend to turn, well, slowly.
According to Duke's, there are "a number of wealthy private collectors who are expected to compete for this work".
If you go to Japan and look around, we would all agree there are quite a lot of wealthy people in Japan.
During World War II, a handful of wealthy refugees fled Hitler with Rembrandt canvasses rolled up in the bottoms of their suitcases.
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"He obviously knew a lot of wealthy people who could afford to buy these kinds of things, " says the seller's lawyer, Neil Myerson.
He's been building three advanced math institutes--in Hong Kong, Beijing and Hangzhou, 100 miles southwest of Shanghai--and conducting a relentless courtship of wealthy moguls.
Of course, a handful of wealthy adventurers do not make a market--and even those involved agree that space tourism isn't ready for the mainstream.
Riding on the crest of this wave of fan ill-feeling, a consortium of wealthy Manchester United fans dubbed the "Red Knights" have gone public with their intentions to buy the club from the Americans.
They will show, I'm told, that he was paid not for lobbying but for "political and strategic advice" by a number of wealthy private clients who share his and Mr Fox's view of the world.
It's a nice, little sanctuary but a far cry from the club's glory days over a hundred years ago when a wealthy member gave them a parcel of land at 40th and Broadway, along with the money to build the four-story Mendelssohn Hall.
They go to a lonely country house, inhabited by a pair of wealthy oddballs called Flower (Charles Durning) and Stone (Joel Grey), who trounce Pozzi at poker and then demand an unusual repayment: he and Nashe must build a stone wall in the grounds.
The UICC and the WCRF want governments and the public to dispel four important myths and misconceptions about cancer, namely that cancer is just a health issue, that it is a disease of the wealthy, developed countries, that it is a death sentence and that getting cancer is down to fate.
Barnabas is a young man from a wealthy family, the builders of a town called Collinsport.
Are they living in a county where there's a huge gap between a few who are wealthy and a whole bunch of people who are struggling every day?
Son of a wealthy Texas oil-company attorney, he was a binge drinker who suffered from bouts of depression.
He had gone from the San Francisco ghetto, where he grew up, to a home in the wealthy boulevards of west Los Angeles via a glittering American football career.
In contrast, to numerous coups d'etat, an aid embargo, and the last two years of instability under the interim government, Preval's political campaign called Hope in Creole, inspired many poor Haitians, who want a future of change, but Michele says Preval also inspired the wealthy, who want a future of investments.
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