• We are not very rich, and we know it.

    FORBES: The Christmas Season Could Crush The Euro

  • Steve Jobs is not only very rich, but he's also responsible for the iPhone and iPad, which in a few short years have become highly desirable gadgets that project status.

    CNN: China's Apple fans lament cult figure Jobs' resignation

  • Based on Forbes' estimates, Kamprad is very rich, but not as rich as the Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer estimates (nor as poor as Ikea suggests).

    FORBES: Gates Still On Top

  • The very rich are not to be squeezed any further.

    ECONOMIST: Lionel Jospin, escape artist

  • It is now 34.5, more like a rich country and not very different from America's, which is 37.

    ECONOMIST: Demography

  • Or you could hop onto an Internet startup or join a robust tech company and have the potential to become very rich--not to mention getting in on the ground floor of the New Economy.

    FORBES: The bottom line on B-schools

  • The party's controversial link with Lord Ashcroft (its very rich but definitely not posh vice-chairman), and the unfortunate case of Zac Goldsmith (a parliamentary candidate who turned out to have been non-domiciled in Britain for tax purposes) have boosted this attack.

    ECONOMIST: Bagehot

  • These policies have meant foreclosures, unemployment, downsizing, and a generally lower quality of life for most of us while the very rich enjoy a prosperity not seen since the Gilded Age.

    FORBES: Occupy Wall Street And The Rhetoric of Equality

  • You know what Fitzgerald said to Hemingway about the very rich, so I need not repeat it.

    FORBES: Art World Froth Meets Stock Market Value

  • I'll be very surprised if Rich Gossage does not get in next year.

    NPR: Ripken Enters MLB Hall of Fame, McGwire Snubbed

  • The powers that be should remember that for the ordinary tennis fans it is an expensive day out - we are not all rich and famous and to see very little tennis on your one and only chance of the tournament can be heartbreaking.

    BBC: Time for a roof at SW19?

  • The Bells were very rich: but it was not money that got Gertrude a First at Oxford, or helped her survive encounters with murderous tribes in the desert, or made her a spy or a major in the British army, or qualified her as poet, scholar, historian, mountaineer, photographer, archaeologist, gardener, cartographer, linguist, and distinguished servant of the state.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Gertrude Bell'

  • One thing is certain: People are getting very rich off this expensive U.S. health care system and not just in fields you would expect.

    FORBES: Your Health Care Dollars At Work

  • Nor are household surveys good at capturing inequality at the very top, not least because it is all but impossible to get the ultra-rich to take part in them.

    ECONOMIST: Sizing the gap

  • In an upper-class suburb of Sydney, in 1972, Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling), an intelligent, vicious, rich old woman, very ill but never without awareness of her power, wills herself not to die.

    NEWYORKER: The Eye of the Storm

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