The tycoon - who has said before that he intends to give away most of his money - told Forbes in April that even if he gave his children a small part of his wealth, "it would be more than they can digest in manylifetimes".
Be it a better mouse trap or a newly crafted strategic policy built in an era of deep and painful cuts in military spending, the budget necessities facing all Americans demand a level of frugality not seen during the lifetimes of many of those now in uniform.
And that was before the middle class was hammered by the worst economic crisis in most of our lifetimes -- a crisis that robbed many of our friends and neighbors of the security of a job, or their homes, or their savings.
And that was before the middle class was hammered by the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes -- a crisis that robbed too many of our friends and our neighbors of their homes, their jobs, their savings -- and pushed the American Dream even further out of reach for too many people.
The romantic twist on all this is that many fans of Luton and Bradford have tasted the top flight in their lifetimes and are now stuck lower down the league lists largely for events beyond their control.
The romantic twist on all this is that many fans of Luton and Bradford have tasted the top flight in their lifetimes and are now stuck lower down the food chain largely for events beyond their control.
There are probably many more comets than near-Earth asteroids, but Nasa points out they spend almost all of their lifetimes at great distances from the Sun and Earth, so that they contribute only about 10% to the census of larger objects that have struck the Earth.