There has been relatively little movement from poor country to rich country over the last 40-plus years.

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Traditionally there has been financial parity among NFL teams thanks to rich TV deals with the likes of NBC, CBS, Fox, ESPN and DirecTV.

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In most rich countries there is a feeling that it has limited the range of permissible gags.

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This time, however, there is a challenger: Brooks Firestone, a rich vintner who has previously served in the assembly.

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There will be handsets that will be optimized for voice, others that will be optimized for data, there will be one that is optimized for voice but has access for data, there will be others optimized for multi-media rich applications.

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Getting into the middle class and staying there has been growing ever harder in recent years, he lamented, and yet the rich have got ever richer.

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While the NFL Scouting Combine has grabbed the attention of most sports spectators around the United States, there is an event currently taking place in San Antonio, Texas, which has a rich tradition and a loyal fan base.

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But there is one thing that everyone has in common (with the possible exception of the uber-rich): To offset future liabilities.

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Labour has already started by introducing a higher income tax rate for the rich, but there have been suggestions that VAT should be raised or some of VAT-exempt items included.

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There are too many teams, which is a big reason why the NBA has increasingly become a league of the rich and the poor.

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