The catalyst for California's transformation was an influx of get-up-and-go risk-takers in search of riches.
What was once an embarrassment of riches is now, in many ways, just an embarrassment.
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Rusted wheels stand silent, gap-toothed wooden houses are half-collapsed: the rotten shards of a thousand dreams of riches.
And if the process can be scaled up, the sort of riches that alchemists dreamed of might be available.
Like it or not, IPOs and their promises of riches for entrepreneurs, employees, and VCs remain a powerful incentive.
But the boiler rooms selling fantasies of riches from Alaska oil leases are in the lower 48 states, each with separate laws.
In the Roman view, Cleopatra quite literally possessed an embarrassment of riches.
In the museum, there are displays of riches found near the stupas.
Because instead of spending their days enjoying the abundance of riches this city has to offer, they are consumed with watching their backs.
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Often times both the casual sports fan and non-sports loving observers get the impression that there is an embarrassment of riches in college athletics.
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You can look at a village in Madagascar, and then at the heaps of riches displayed in the pages of this magazine, and be appalled.
The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security, but at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth.
Second, the country has the sort of riches that America had at the turn of the last century but not its built-in awe of entrepreneurship.
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This embarrassment of riches, however, besieges men with a bewildering array of treatment choices, conflicting advice from doctors--and a lack of definitive studies comparing the options.
Although the Cameroon striker has been the club's leading scorer for the past two seasons, Rijkaard still has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal in attack.
Rod Fyffe, a former mayor of Bendigo, said he sees his city as the cradle of Australian multiculturalism, where the lure of riches drew migrants from around the world, including legions of Chinese.
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Promises of riches were given to investors but the only ones getting rich were the Rands, who had discovered there was more money in raising money than there ever was in natural gas.
If you rub the magic lamp as it appears right in front of your nose, it will spark further visual wizardry, with the stage transformed into a 3D cave of riches where Aladdin finds his fortune.
The passion that their students, alumni and sponsors have for college basketball translates into an abundance of riches for these universities, making their men's basketball programs extremely valuable, according to Forbes' first ranking of college hoops teams.
It was actually Democrats who proved how little electoral success an abundance of riches could buy in 2004, when left-leaning 527s (a sort of precursor to super PACs) spent almost twice as much as right-leaning ones without toppling Mr Bush.
In what was in some ways an embarrassment of riches, Knight was reported to have received more than 90 offers of assistance and its Board of Directors turned down what might have been an even more attractive last minute offer from Citadel LLC.
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Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.
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They came, not just in pursuit of the riches of this world, but for the richness of this life.
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The Partnership is aimed at promoting a better understanding of and respect for the heritage and to ensure transmission to future generation of the riches of diversity which the heritage represents.
Despite promises of government riches, the residents of Maki, a small seaside town, voted last summer against having a nuclear power station on their doorstep.
' He described the source of the riches that funded the opulent dwellings of New Bedford, 'these brave houses and flowery gardens that came from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
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