War-torn Iraq has been a gold mine for Halliburton, yet another treasure trove of U.S. taxpayer dollars for a company that has no peer in the fine art of extracting riches from the government.
He advances his own theory about why diaries fail to extract similar riches from American politicians: Diaries are "unpollable".
In business, the laws of competition mean most corporations will extract maximum riches from available resources with not much thought to the consequences.
I could also have included dozens of similarly potent images and extracted similar riches.
Casey Childs, the founder of Primary Stages theater, described Mr. Foote's body of work by noting his "ability to find the miracle in the everyday, the gift of extracting the riches from the commonplace".
Soon enough, the trophy skyscraper descends into financial disaster, but the developers, bankers and party officials have already extracted their riches, and for long afterward they will still enjoy them.
In short, the Great Prostitute has something to do with the exploitative nature of Roman imperial diplomacy and commerce, which extracted fabulous riches off the backs of farmers, laborers and slaves.
Most Mongolians have enjoyed little of the riches extracted from their land.
It is a brilliant work of propaganda: tropical plants, animals, colonial faces and agricultural and mineral riches extracted from the colonies.
