Word: inheritance
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...turns out that investigators never really believed the Mob rubout story, on one hand: the murder was too messy, and hit men rarely kill the wife of their target. On the other hand, if the brothers' greed was the motive, they would have had to kill both parents to inherit their $14 million estate. Other pieces soon fell into place: investigators found a screenplay that Erik wrote about a young man who murders his very rich parents for their money. A home- computer disk thought to contain the father's revised will was mysteriously erased. Far from appearing crushed with...
...patriarchal age of nearly 90 -- he posed dreadful problems for other artists. The length of his career condemned all his Venetian contemporaries to be the second choice of patrons. This must have been especially hard on Tintoretto, born 30 years after Titian, who had every right to expect to inherit the great man's mantle. Titian refused to die until Tintoretto was nearly...
...Will a shrinking pool of savings increase interest rates and stifle worldwide growth? The seven national leaders in Houston should ask their financial experts to gauge the impact of that worrisome trend. They should also examine the effect of high levels of government borrowing on future generations, who will inherit the bill. The conclusions might begin to instill a collective recognition of the need to pay now for government services the public demands...
...least 400 families control fortunes in excess of $100 million, but the real measure of wealth lies in its breadth and depth. More than 2 million people, many only in their 30s, are deutsche mark millionaires. This is the first German generation in this century to actually inherit wealth. "Earlier generations," says Edith Hartl, a self-made businesswoman in Munich, "were wiped out by Weimar inflation or war. Today's 30-year-olds are inheriting all the fruits of the economic miracle...
...when he arrives this fall, Meyer will inherit an endowment which has grown from $1 billion to more than $5 billion in just under 20 years...