He has grown on the board and off.
Britain, he said, had consistently squandered revenue from oil taxes; Scotland, he said, would bank it to ensure that future generations of Scots benefit, much like the similarly sized country across the water that has grown rich off oil.
The looks may still carry, but things surely sound different; pop's tolerance for naughty has grown, shaking off the chummy naïveté that allowed a song to shoehorn an infidelity jingle into daily family car rides and high-school dances across the country.
Part of that, of course, has to do with the fact that CMGI has become one of the most successful Internet stocks and as a holding company has grown, sold off or taken public a number of companies for billions and is taking those billions and buying more.
American officials have balked at paying the fines, portraying the Afghan border closing as a shakedown by a government that is short of cash and unwilling to tax its own business class, which has grown wealthy off American supply contracts.
At the same time, that class has grown wealthy off China's political economy, in which officials and state-owned enterprises work together to reap benefits, often at the expense of private entrepreneurship.
Founded in 1900 by the state-owned Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara mining company (LK), Kiruna has grown rich off the vast seam of iron ore that lurks below the town, but it's now facing destruction by the very phenomenon that created its wealth.
These days the director has grown used to shrugging off these charges.
Over the years, the Kremlin has grown used to brushing off these kinds of accusations.
Touring the film on the festival circuit, Anderson has grown used to fending off this subject.
