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  Billionaire lists - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Forbes magazine always lists the world's wealthiest individuals: The World's Billionares.
Although it is exceedingly unlikely that an individual can a mass a fortune as large as one billion without coming to the attention of Forbes worldwide staff of reporters, some skeptics question whether Forbes has thoroughly identified every billionaire on Earth.
List of heads of government and state by net worth
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_billionaires   (98 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
Korean, known in the language itself as Kugo, is the language of the Korean Peninsula in northeast Asia.
Korean is a morphologically rich language in which many grammatical functions are marked by inflection and affixes; but similar to Altaic languages, gender and number are not marked, and the language lacks articles, fusional morphology, relative pronouns, conjunctions and agglutination.
Korean is a Subject-Object-Verb language, but as long as the verb occurs in sentence-final position the order of other constituents can vary.
www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=76   (1425 words)

  
 Forbes - The China Rich List
It seems the richest of the filthy rich have gotten even richer, with the threshold to be included in the list of richest 100 climbing to $84 million compared to the $50 million needed one year earlier.
Much of the lists entrepreneurs are engaged in real estate and building, sectors that have been the fastest to open up since China’s reform efforts started - a shift away from agriculture, which dominated last year’s list.
The face of the list changes rapidly in China’s quickly changing currents and undercurrents, with only 29 from the 2001 list and 9 people off the 1999 list (of only 50 that year) hanging on to show up on this year’s.
www.friedlnet.com /news/02110101.html   (613 words)

  
 friendly dictators
They usually grow rich, while their countries' economies deteriorate and the majority of their people live in poverty.
As the gap between the rich and poor grew wider, the poor grew impatient.
Under Nationalist rule, 85% of the population was disenfranchised, but the onset of the Korean War and the anti-communist hysteria of the McCarthy era led the US to declare that the tiny island represented the real government of China.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 Korean Serials (한국 정기 간행물) : (Asian Reading Room: Library of Congress)
The Korean Section's collections include 6325 periodical titles, including 177 North Korean titles.
The Korean Serial List provides researchers with detailed information about the rich and diverse newspaper periodical collections located throughout the Library of Congress.
In compliance with the Library of Congress procedures, the Korean serials are romanized through using the McCune-Reischauer system.
www.loc.gov /rr/asian/koreanserials   (204 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
We moved Ashe to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- he had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
She was considered by Gore as a possible VP runningmate for 2000, but she did not make the final short list.
We moved Hardy to our "inactive" list because -- by March 2004 -- she had yet to qualify for any primary ballots and did not appear to be attempting to gain ballot access.
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 Wired News:
The top 10 "Working Rich" is rounded out by Saudi investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Alsaud, who is worth $15 billion, Germany's retailing leaders Theo and Karl Albrecht and family ($13.6 billion), and Hong Kong real estate magnate Li Ka-shing ($12.7 billion).
However, Bettencourt is not included in the "Working Rich" list, but as a "Coupon Clipper," because she is living off inherited wealth and not actively working.
She said the magazine has been compiling its list since 1987, and in that time economic changes led to a geographic shift of wealth.
www.wired.com /news/business/1,20314-0.html   (756 words)

  
 imc-dc Info Page
This is a general list for anything which would be of interest to the DC IMC community.
This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members is available only to the list administrator.
If list discussion degenerates into personal arguments, attacks, or disrespectful comments, the moderator may give warnings to individuals or the entire list, and may also put the list on temporary "emergency moderation" to give people time to cool down.
lists.indymedia.org /mailman/listinfo/imc-dc   (754 words)

  
 Korean Movie, VCD, DVD, Korean Video, online Korean movie store - YesAsia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Hot new Korean thriller Running Wild explores the darker side of man's behavior, examining the dark side that is within us all, and what happens when that beast is awakened.
The nine days that followed have been well-chronicled in the Korean media, as Ji and his gang robbed and rampaged, before holing themselves up with a houseful of hostages to sweat out a long and draining police siege.
Ji's immortal statement, "The wealthy are always innocent, while the poor are always guilty" struck a chord with the Korean people and helped Ji's legend live on, long after the siege came to its tragic end.
global.yesasia.com /en/Korean/Videos.aspx   (2044 words)

  
 Ten Reasons
One of them, a Korean convert, expressed gratitude for having been ordained during the "historic moment" of Benedict XVI's papacy.
But it's a different story when freshly-minted councilmen, elected to bring a breath of fresh air to a stale city hall, market it as a get rich quick scheme for a troubled city, promising pots of gold instead of making hard choices, and turning Cincinnati into the newest Sahara of the Bozart in the process.
That for the Church, God will not fail to provide Pastors who are rich in wisdom and holiness and ready to defend the light of the Gospel to the very ends of the earth.
richleonardi.blogspot.com   (4378 words)

  
 Microsoft Exchange Hosting//Exchange ASP//Exchange Providers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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Compusystems is proud to offer our valued customers a Native mode Exchange 2003 solution leveraging on the exciting new features such as feature rich Outlook web access and the ability to connect to our secure Exchange servers over the internet when using Outlook 2003 without having to install a VPN client.
With the same feature rich messaging and collaboration capabilities as an in-house solution, hosted Exchange 2000 along with hosted Outlook 2002 allows you to access your e-mail, schedules, calendars, public folders, and all of the other great Exchange features...
www.crowcanyon.com /ExchangeASP.htm   (3570 words)

  
 Teen Edition Reading Lists
The son of a rich English landowner finds unexpected friendship with the homeless son of a poor Irish immigrant amidst guilty secrets, death threats, and a chance for a ticket to America.
Rich’s troubled relationship with his stepfather Misha undergoes a powerful shift after Rich discovers Misha’s role as a Jewish partisan fighting the Nazis in World War II.
Becca finds herself knee deep in peer counseling, a fight with the good looking editor of the school paper, and worry about her brother’s dipping grades, all at a time when she should be calmly picking out a dress for the junior prom.
www.chipublib.org /008subject/003cya/teened/readlist.html   (5428 words)

  
 brandchannel.com | Brand Rankings by Impact 2004 | Readers Choice Awards 2004 | Global Brands | branding and marketing ...
But the Korean brand has been on a strong rise for the last couple years by turning its product from cheap to smart, investing in quality design and technology, and generally surprising consumers with competitively priced, quality products.
The Korean consumer electronics brand appears to be trying to beat Samsung at its own game by countering a traditionally poor image with a better quality product.
Write in votes carry equal weight to listed brands unless the brand is already listed in the shortlist, in which case we accept up to 10 write ins for one brand.
www.brandchannel.com /start1.asp?fa_id=248   (5999 words)

  
 Forbes to Expand 'China Rich' List - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
Forbes magazine's annual "China Rich" list will expand to include 400 names next year to reflect the booming private sector on the mainland, according to Steve Forbes, president and CEO of Forbes, Inc. and editor-in-chief of Forbes in an interview with Xinhua Wednesday in Hong Kong.
Forbes said that a "400 Richest" list will provide an even clearer view of the latest developments in the private sector.
The 2003 list, scheduled to be released in October, will include more than 100 names, he said.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=18447   (467 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | South Asia | Mittal signs $9bn deal with India
The company said a final agreement would be signed after completion of a detailed project report.
South Korean steel maker POSCO decided to invest $12bn in the eastern Indian state of Orissa earlier this year.
India has been slow to open its markets to foreign investment, and privatisations in key industries, such as oil and heavy engineering have proved politically sensitive in recent years.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/4322612.stm   (386 words)

  
 Graduate Programs in Asian Philosophy and Religion
Comments, descriptions: The Graduate School of the Academy of Korean Studies is a specialized institution focusing on the provision of doctorate as well as master's programs in all fields of Korean Studies.
Completion of course work in Korean Thought I and II, Korean Society I and II and Hanmun (Classical Sino-Korean) is required as a broad basis for more specialized research.
In an effort to promote the study of Korean culture internationally, opportunities are offered to young foreign scholars interested in Korean Studies to receive the same education as Korean students at the AKS Graduate School, with similar privileges.
www.h-net.org /~buddhism/GradStudies.htm   (8307 words)

  
 Apple - Mac OS X - 200+ New Features
Find a rich suite of scientific calculations and precision options in the new scientific calculator.
View search results as a traditional list, icon view or a completely new group view that clusters found items based on type.
Tiger includes the Tamil language script, a new input mode for Korean and extended system fonts to support Greek (modern and classical), Vietnamese, Cyrillic and roman script languages of the former USSR.
www.apple.com /macosx/newfeatures/over200.html   (3462 words)

  
 Rich oil state gets into semiconductor fabrication
According to the report, South Korean chip firms are set to open negotiations with the Sultanate in plans to build fabs in the oil-rich state.
The Sultan is rich, but not in the list of the richest people in the world, according to Forbes 2003 list.
According to the Borneo Times, several South Korean firms are contemplating making chip fabrication plants in Brunei, as you can read here.
www.theinquirer.net /?article=10591   (157 words)

  
 Imc-dc-video Info Page
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 BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | How to become ruler of China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Chinese political history is littered with the corpses of those who aspired - and let their aspirations show: Gao Gang; Liu Shaoqi; Lin Biao; Jiang Qing; Hu Yaobang; Zhao Ziyang: the list is long.
And rich ones are a welcome addition to the Party's ranks.
Beware of that enticing invitation to a junket in a seaside resort town, especially if it comes from a capitalist.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2441205.stm   (824 words)

  
 PIUG - Patent Information Vendor Sites
Hanlim IPS Co.,Ltd. - Korean firm providing patent document delivery, patent searching, and translation beween Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese.
Of particular interest is their collection of Korean, Chinese and Japanese patent information that is searchable in the English language, a feature not commonly available in competing products.
Korean Patent Translation - Korean patent translation service in environmental, chemical, mechanical and civil engineering.
www.piug.org /vendor.html   (3531 words)

  
 Statistical NLP / corpus-based computational linguistics resources
Has a comprehensive selection of resources for WSD, including a good list of WSD data resources, but not yet the new SEMCOR.
Open source package for unsupervised discovery of word senses by clustering together instances of a word (or words) that are used in similar contexts in raw text, supporting a wide range of clustering techniques based on both context vectors and similarity matrices, and including links to SVDPACKC and CLUTO.
A good well organized list of CL references, concentrating on corpus-based and statistical NLP methods.
www-nlp.stanford.edu /links/statnlp.html   (3219 words)

  
 Conversation in the BlueReign : 2002 - 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
You really could not create a sentence that makes any less sense, nor is anything like the original.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, and ShareAlike 2.1 Australia License.
Soon to be on the BRW Top 100 Rich List
bluereign.blogspot.com /2004/05/translussive.html   (90 words)

  
 The Blinne Blog
There should be an investigation on the role of French intelligence in this whole mess to determine if they deliberately planted these documents in order to discredit the Iraq war effort given that there were many French companies up to their eyeballs in the Oil for Food scandal.
The Smoking Gun has posted Harriet Miers' Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
While life tenure and independence should not be a license to usurp the rule of law in favor of a rule of man, they provide an essential structural protection to ensure that judges are able to make decisions based only on the fundamental vision of the Founders -- the rule of law.
www.blinne.org   (7318 words)

  
 completelest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The richness of hues in Her attire as well as Her jewels symbolize Her power.
Ruler of death, She chose from the dead spread across battlefields, taking them to Her palace Sessrumnir, meaning “rich in seats”.
In time they might be born once more through the nurturance of the moist Earth, another aspect of Freya.
www.mothergoddess.com /completelist.htm   (5777 words)

  
 SANS Top 20 Vulnerabilities - The Experts Consensus
Thousands of organizations used that list, and the expanded Top-20 lists that followed one, two, and three years later, to prioritize their efforts so they could close the most dangerous holes first.
A list of participants may be found at the end of this document.
We will update the list and the instructions as more critical vulnerabilities and more current or convenient methods of protection are identified, and we welcome your input along the way.
www.sans.org /top20   (7600 words)

  
 Book World Raves (washingtonpost.com)
Ely's story is rich and compelling -- and persuasively documented.
A masterful storyteller; his prose is elegant and subtle and his imagination is rich and interesting.
When he focuses on Shakespeare's texts, as he does in his chapter on the sonnets, he is brilliant.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A30101-2004Dec2.html   (5773 words)

  
 Fifty-nine Deceits in Fahrenheit 911, Dave Kopel, Independence Institute
As we go through the long list of lies and tricks in Fahrenheit 9/11, keep in mind that Michael Moore has assembled a "war room" of political operatives and lawyers in order to respond to criticism of Fahrenheit 9/11 and to file defamation suits.
The list itself bears that out: More than 1,000 voters were matched with felons though they were of different races.
Based on the numbers of successful appeals, fls were less likely to have been improperly placed on the purge list: of the fls who were purged, 5.1 percent successfully appealed.
www.davekopel.com /Terror/Fiftysix-Deceits-in-Fahrenheit-911.htm   (13131 words)

  
 Wired News: Website: Westerners Pretty Rich
You may think your salary is paltry, but compared with most of the world's population, you're up there with Bill Gates.
A new website, the Global Rich List, starkly illustrates the worldwide distribution of wealth.
Key issues are cheap generic drugs for developing nations, an end to richer nations' huge farm subsidies, reshuffling of trade tariffs between rich and poor countries, and special economic concessions for developing nations.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,60380,00.html   (784 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
So far, the lists have run not to handfuls but to hundreds of names -- from
Gibbons's list had its beginnings in a cloud of patriotic umbrage that
But with their names on the "list of shame,"
www.frissell.com /taxpat/Renounce.htm   (2786 words)

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