The dinner was hosted by some bigwigs, including Forbes 400 members, Robert Rich, Jr.

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And thus it might have remained, but for Robert Boyle, a rich well-connected Englishman, who was interested in alchemy but embarrassed by his interest.

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But insiders say Mr. Horn, a 70-year-old industry veteran, has brought gravitas to the top of a studio embroiled in drama since 2009, when Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger filled the job with Rich Ross, a television executive who had no filmmaking experience.

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He collaborated with a team of pathogen hunters, including Fabian Leendertz of the Robert Koch Institute in Germany and Stephen Rich of the Laboratory of Medical Zoology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

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Robert Brown (Glasgow, LD) asked about the gap between rich and poor in Glasgow and how it can be worked on.

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Last year, CNBC poached Robert Frank, the author of Richistan and The High-Beta Rich and pioneer of the wealth beat at The Wall Street Journal, to set up the Inside Wealth blog at the cable channel.

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The gap between middle earners and the super-rich "has been widening very considerably", according to business editor Robert Peston's.

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As reported in this space last week, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Robert Kimmitt set the stage with his recent visit to Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich Persian Gulf states.

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Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association, tells NPR's Robert Siegel that the hospitals have accepted "in principle" that reimbursements from Washington will decline as the number of insured patients rise at those institutions.

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