• Policymakers in Germany and the Netherlands are fiscal hawks by faith, believing austerity is the only appropriate remedy for the rich world's ills.

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  • Nevertheless, the point is that the charge that the Republicans only cut taxes for the rich is factually groundless.

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  • Debt financing was available, but at escalating rates and only for the already-rich.

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  • Until recently this was a worry only for the super-rich, but now many ordinary people fear that, thanks to rising house prices, they may be dragged into paying death duties.

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  • All quite wonderful for the lawyers and not really of much use to anyone else: for the lawyers will be the only people who get rich out of this of course.

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  • The surprise success of Slumdog Millionaire, which could win the Oscar for Best Picture, not only draws attention to the rich film culture of India's Bollywood but also reflects a profound change in the way the world views the film's key supporting character: the slum itself.

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  • He dumped that plan when offered a job at the New York Observer, the salmon-colored weekly that lived to tweak the rich and famous, and abandoned journalism for the family business only in 1995, just as his father became a minority owner of Rockefeller Center.

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  • StopHS2 campaign manager Joe Rukin said "it's basically a train for the rich that everyone else is not only going to have to pay for the construction of but also have to subsidise throughout its lifetime as well".

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  • He thinks the only way for him to be alive and healthy and rich is to be president.

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  • You can only afford a product, because some rich person invented it for the masses, just like they did with smartphones, hard drives and affordable air travel.

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  • 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.

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  • GameTanium Mobile capitalizes on this new demand by providing consumers an easy one-stop shop for filling up their tablets with only the latest and best graphically rich games available on the market.

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  • Then we voted for Fox of the PAN and we saw that they were only helping big business and the rich.

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  • Still later the same sorts of tensions would appear in the public images of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford, who were revered not only for their achievements in technology, but also for having managed to turn the trick of becoming rich and famous while retaining the homespun virtues of small town boys.

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  • Vaughn is telling Bruce about his worst client, a rich banker who only wanted to run for hours each day, caring nothing for the beauty of Bluff.

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  • In fact, four of the five youngest Forbes 400 members got rich from Facebook, though only Zuckerberg, who broke into the top 20 for the first time this year, remains at the company.

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  • With loans to consumers with bad credit blowing up all over the place, it's only natural that banks would turn their attention to the other end of the spectrum: credit for the extremely rich, or at least extremely credit worthy.

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  • It's nice to know that New York's status as the center of the universe only seems to be intensifying, and that in an era when everyone fears NYC has become a playground for the rich, it continues to attract folks who are totally broke.

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  • These three mild suburban guys strike it rich only after Rock assumes the identity of a jailed racketeer and dubs his group CB4 (for Cell Block Four).

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  • They will not believe that SAP wants to make them rich, only that SAP wants more software license revenue in return for a few crumbs left on the table.

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  • The biggest share of government benefits, meanwhile, goes to the elderly, in the form of Medicare and Social Security. (If you count tax breaks for mortgages and health insurance as government hand-outs, the rich are big spongers.) Only 13% of households receive food stamps, and only 5% benefit from public housing.

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  • Apply all that new technology to an ancient lexicon of good manners that precluded not only the preparation but the cutting of food at Chinese tables, rich or poor, and you have no need for any tableware beyond your chopsticks, a couple of serving pieces, and a slippery porcelain spoon for soup.

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