If you were already in the top quartile of high-paid plutocrats, your comp nearly doubled.
To borrow from Joseph Schumpeter, the capitalist achievement does not consist of better baubles for plutocrats.
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What could snuff out this apparent new spirit of solidarity between plutocrats and protesters?
Plenty of newspapers in what now looks like their golden age survived on plutocrats' generosity.
There's a reason why politicians do that: You can't balance a budget on the shoulders of plutocrats.
It is notable, too, that representation from the hereditary peerage on that plutocrats' list is falling too.
They were attacked as tools of the plutocrats for doing so yet delivered the goods: massive job growth.
Yet Mr Riordan has shown that there are plutocrats who are just waiting to be given something to do.
The widening gaps within many countries are beginning to worry even the plutocrats.
The overseers usually ruled their possession with a light hand, leaving local government to appointed plutocrats and civil servants.
Since the pay of these plutocrats is highly variable, a bad year for them means a bad year for the taxman.
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After all, the prime movers driving this sea change include statesmen as well as entrepreneurs, social activists as well as plutocrats.
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But do not confuse harvesters of sun and wind with electricity plutocrats.
All the high-tech opportunities out there can be tremendously exciting (just ask those plutocrats in Silicon Valley), but also scary as hell (just ask me).
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It's no exaggeration to say that she lives and breathes this stuff, marshaling the efforts of journalists who gather the goods on the planet's plutocrats.
But the man who kicked off this year's event is in charge of a budget even bigger than any at the disposal of the Zeitgeist plutocrats.
Christian and Nick Candy, beloved of many plutocrats, go in for leather on the walls, aggressive metal lighting and a palette of creams, greys and browns.
This was not much noticed at first, despite the hoopla about aligning interests and creating value for shareholders, because quite a lot of the plutocrats' pay was hidden.
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Chinese, Russian and Middle Eastern plutocrats are taking their place.
But not all plutocrats desire access to the British establishment.
Not any logical exploration of what is fair or just either, but rather just that deeper human point that allowing the plutocrats to earn tax free would be unfair.
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Though the satiric point of making some of the plutocrats monsters out of an eighteenth-century farce eludes me, the actors try hard for vulgar panache, and they perform with professional skill.
Teams are folding, merging or taking bailouts from plutocrats.
What with Occupy Wall Street's protesters railing against the power of America's plutocrats, and Barack Obama's insistence that the wealthy must pay more, a row about tax seems likely to dominate the campaign.
Chrysta Freeland advances a similar argument in Plutocrats: that billionaires have effectively seceded from the countries in which they happen to reside to become a nation unto themselves, with its own culture and folkways.
As our motor launch sped up the Grand Canal in the moonlight, I noted all the palazzos were unlit, owned by absentee plutocrats whose hearts belonged to Venice, too, at least two weeks out of the year.
The leftist Syriza Party of Greece, which had characterized austerity policies of the current government as serving the interest of bankers, oligarchs and plutocrats at the expense of ordinary Greeks ended up leap-frogging Pasok for second place.
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The area, which runs east from Central Park past ritzy Park Avenue apartment houses to the East River, and north from 60th Street to 69th, is home to such plutocrats as David Rockefeller, Rupert Murdoch, Ronald Perelman, Robert Bass and Sumner Redstone.
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