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...many candidates in the running for the top job at the world’s richest university, getting the nod would come with a sizable...
...competing against their former employer by importing cheaper cement from Russia. Their boat got tied up in every port, and after months of harassment, they took their business to Africa. Oligopolistic pricing is so pronounced in some sectors--like telecom, dominated by Carlos Slim, one of the world's richest men--that it is hurting Mexico's competitiveness. "The key to being successful in business in Mexico is to have little competition. I guess everyone in the world wants this, but the problem is that the state cannot foster that if you want to be a successful country," says Adolfo...
...richest countries in the world, the number of babies born too early keeps going up--and with all their medical savvy, doctors can't figure out why. Today nearly 13 out of every 100 births are premature, an increase of 30% over the past 20 years. Part of that rise is due to the advent of modern fertility treatments, which caused a sharp jump in the number of twins, triplets and higher multiples--most of whom are born early. But it turns out that 83% of preemies in the U.S. are singletons whose prematurity can be caused by any number...
WARREN BUFFETT, businessman, philanthropist and second richest man in the U.S., on buying his first shares of stock...
Hunt was a progeny of affluence. Her birth father, Texas oil magnate H.L. Hunt, was dubbed “the world’s richest man” in 1948 by Life magazine. As an illegitimate child, she spent her first seven years in a modest three-bedroom house just a few minutes away from her father’s mansion. Her mother, Ruth Ray, raised Swanee and her three siblings as the offspring of a fictitious husband with the surname “Wright.” Life as a single mother and woman of faith was difficult...