"For many people, Las Vegas represents a place to hit it rich," she said.
"He says when he hits it rich with writing, he's going to buy this apartment," Ms. Woodson said.
"The same carpetbaggers who came to Silicon Valley to hit it rich last time are now looking for jobs with hedge funds," said Mark J. Pincus, an entrepreneur working on his fifth start-up.
As it turns out, the "Benjamin Button" star didn't have to play scenery to get into the film; she tackles the role of Hanks' next door neighbor, B'Ella, a working class woman who hits it rich when she and her husband, played by Cedric the Entertainer, win the lottery.
And now we're hearing recession this, recession that, and I'm like, yeah, now that it's hitting the rich people, it's officially a recession.
So too is the old Labour idea of paying for it by hitting the rich until the pips squeak.
Democrats would be hitting the rich.
Technology's impact will feel like a tornado, hitting the rich world first, but eventually sweeping through poorer countries too.
President Bush has been going full throttle since summer, spending several days a week flying around the country, hitting up rich Republicans for $2,000 checks.
It also hit the rich world's less educated folk with unaccustomed competition.Politicians in search of a scapegoat find it easier to blame globalisation than technology for the widening wage gaps in rich countries, and some studies of America's wage dispersion conclude that around 10-15% of the widening wage gap can be explained by trade.
