They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich, because in a generous America you don't have to be rich to achieve your potential.
But opponents of this urban drilling say that it shouldn't be done in populated areas and that the promises of many people getting rich aren't true.
Of course, just because someone is rich doesn't mean these cards are for them.
Given the math, why don't rich people give rather than bequeath millions to their kids?
Just for the sake of switching things up, you might consider auditioning a wine that isn't rich, oaky, buttery or sweet.
Mr. WISOFF: It seems as though the club's, I'd say in the last 30 years, forgot that they weren't rich anymore.
He reminds readers that getting rich won't necessarily make them happy.
Take away Jeter and Rivera and the Yankees are just a very rich team in an industry where being rich isn't nearly the advantage it used to be.
The Rebooted Rich don't try to repeat their previous successes.
Unfortunately, taxing the rich didn't bring in nearly enough revenue.
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But pawnshop owners say more upscale clientele are responding to a different kind of economic pressure: With credit tight, even the rich can't always get a traditional loan on short notice.
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Indeed, donor-advised funds, both those run by community foundations like the Trust and those affiliated with investment firms, such as the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, and the Schwab Charitable Fund, are a fine way for folks who aren't rich enough to set up their own private foundations to funnel money over time to their favorite charities.
He said himself, 'I don't like the rich' and 'my No. 1 enemy isn't Sarkozy but the financial markets'.
For people who don't have access to omega-3-rich foods (or don't like fish), fish oil supplements are now an option.
Now that pollution is damaging the world we can't possibly turn to the poor countries and say now we have grown rich, you can't develop.
But of course, there is a third possibility, that it doesn't get rich at all.
It's only the very rich that don't need to be bothered about what they look like.
And Tanya adds, the rich people don't vote for Lula, the poor people do.
"It seriously limits the growth of other people who aren't as rich, " she says.
One may develop a devoted following by charging double digits for repairs for which the big boys demand four figures, but you probably won't get rich.
"Basically, if you don't own a piece of Facebook or Google and you haven't robbed a bank and don't have rich parents, then your chances of being able to buy a house or raise a family in the Bay Area or in most of coastal California is pretty weak, " says Mr. Kotkin.
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But critics of eurozone austerity programmes can't help seeing a rich irony in German politicians fretting about accidental tax rises and spending cuts in the US. Aren't they the ones who've been insisting that large parts of the eurozone head over their own fiscal cliff, entirely on purpose?
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Aren't there any rich women, for example the widow of the founder of L'Oral?
De Kooning thought it would mostly help rich artists who didn't need the money.
This kind of performance, though, isn't what the rich clients of hedge funds are looking for.
"Just because they are rich, it doesn't mean they agree to being exploited, " she said.
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Even Hollywood's rich and famous can't avoid the housing downturn that's sweeping the nation.
Mega has claims to some very rich fields but isn't doing any mining at the moment.
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