Word: richer
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...banking the $2,000 a month he gives her. "He is old, no energy," she says. "Like my grandfather." Hedging her bets, three times a week she slips on a miniskirt and heads out to the basement Moonlight Club, looking for someone a little younger and a lot richer. And of course, he's got to come from Hong Kong...
...Times criticized Dennis Tito for having invented the "the most offensively elitist form of eco-tourism yet devised." Sorry, Dennis Tito has invented the most democratic form of ultra-capitalism yet devised. Let people pay what the market will bear to live out their fantasies. We'll all be richer...
...unlike most kids, he's conflicted. He knows the popular animated characters come from Japan. He has also learned in school how Japanese soldiers brutally invaded and colonized his homeland back in 1910. After his mother reminded him that every Pocket Monster sold helped Japan get richer, Doo Dam successfully resisted buying any Pokémon cards. "Japan is bad," he says. "No one nation should be above another nation...
Local traditions fuel the problem. In the past, it was normal for West African families to send a child to stay with richer relatives in the city and for newlyweds to hire a young village girl to cook and clean for them. But with "the fabric of the extended family breaking down, things have become distorted," says Lisa Kurbiel, a child-protection officer with UNICEF. What was a custom has become an organized trade, with children being taken as far away as South Africa and the Middle East. Closer to home, they end up in such places as the labor...
...makers of "Buffy," and its producer, Fox Television, wanted a substantial jump in the approximately $1 million an episode the network had been paying. (As with many series, this meant operating at a loss for the expensive production, with the hope of making it up in syndication and richer later-season deals). Talks were at an impasse and bad feelings running high when UPN jumped in with a reported offer of about $2.3 million per episode, which creator Joss Whedon and Fox leapt at like a vampire at a Red Cross bloodmobile wreck...