These are three very different measures of rich: accumulated wealth, annual production and consumer lifestyle.
Flush with accumulated wealth from the past, these offices are providing a rich source of capital for a growing economy.
If one accumulated wealth by legitimate means, was one entitled to "squander" it on beautiful, useless rarities like tulips, or indeed paintings and gems?
Prior to retirement, the focus is on wealth accumulation, but when retirement rolls around a fool-proof plan must be devised to ensure accumulated wealth is effectively managed to finance the entire retirement.
We pay them from our accumulated wealth.
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These corporations and the people who ran them accumulated great wealth and political influence.
It is logical that older people should have accumulated more wealth than younger ones.
He had already accumulated considerable wealth of his own before marrying an heiress to the Wal-Mart fortune.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rajapaksa removed the country's chief justice from office after a parliamentary inquiry concluded she had accumulated unexplained wealth and misused power.
Earlier this year, Mr. Rajapaksa removed a Supreme Court's chief justice from office following a parliamentary inquiry that concluded she accumulated unexplained wealth and misused power.
Neither has accumulated any significant wealth or cares much about it.
In the Heritage area of Sharjah city, visitors can tour two houses of former pearl merchants and traders, the Bait Khalid bin Ibrahim and Bait Al Naboodah, which display the wealth accumulated by such hazards and showcase traditional Gulf architecture.
That is true, but it only explains a part of the staggering wealth being accumulated by the privileged classes.
Over the past two decades Mexico's drug mobs have accumulated enormous firepower and wealth, and corrupted local police forces and politicians, especially along the northern border with the United States.
The vast majority of our personal assests and person wealth are accumulated after our 40th birthday partly because we have more years of career after our 40th birthday, they are all the big ones, we have the benefits of compound interest, etc.
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As a result of shifting responsibility for retirement planning onto workers and financial product innovation, virtually all Americans (and foreign investors for that matter) that had accumulated any degree of wealth turned to financial services firms for expert, independent investment advice and investment products.
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What the American people deserve is a complete and honest presentation by Romney of how his wealth was accumulated, where it is now invested, what purpose is served by all the various offshore vehicles in which he has an interest and what his financial relationship with Bain Capital has been since his retirement from the company.
None of which would have been possible had they not first accumulated their mind-boggling wealth.
True wealth is rarely accumulated through short-term trading.
"We also built models of 139 developing countries going back 30 years - the most comprehensive models ever developed on unrecorded capital outflows and the accumulated value of all this offshore wealth, " he explains.
As they move toward their retirement years, the lifetime of wealth that they have accumulated is showing up in the types of homes they are demanding - and falling interest rates mean that they can afford to buy even more.
As it is common with athletes who have enjoyed an overabundance of success and wealth, Derek Jeter has accumulated as many critics and naysayers as he has hits.
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The story said that the recent economic crisis left the average American family in 2010 with no more wealth than in the early 1990s, erasing almost two decades of accumulated prosperity, reducing their net worth by almost 40%.
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