New Labour's insistence that the hyper-wealthy must never be offended became suspect.
They lived with the small hypocrisies and pleasures of their milieu, bringing together some hyper-wealthy friends and unabashedly progressive causes.
The conservative author Charles Murray, in his new book "Coming Apart," which is about the nation's widening class divide, identifies "Super ZIP codes" that the "hyper-wealthy and hyper-elite" call home.
He said companies faced severe fines or closure if they failed to comply with new rules on payment of wages, standards of accommodation and other aspects of the employment of migrant workers in the hyper-wealthy Gulf emirate.
After reading how the hyper-wealthy are drawn to the island, I hope that on their first visits it was the beauty of this special place, and not other wealthy people, that made them return.
The court's decision, championed by conservatives, seems to have shifted the balance of power in the Republican primaries away from grassroots candidates who rely on a wide base of small-dollar donors to the establishment candidate, who benefits from seven-figure ad campaigns with the help of a few hyper-wealthy allies.
When not churning out worn jokes about politics, business or the lush lives of the hyper-wealthy (Grimes comes accessorized with a vapid trophy wife), Mr. Kirby scribbles an increasingly inane story involving double- and triple-crossing among Grimes and Bigley and their two ambitious underlings.
Jean M. Donnelly New York City The cowardice and the greed of most of the subjects in Evan Osnos's article on the hyper-wealthy's preparations for disaster and apocalypse scream out from the page ("Survival of the Richest," January 30th).
The cowardice and the greed of most of the subjects in Evan Osnos's article on the hyper-wealthy's preparations for disaster and apocalypse scream out from the page ("Survival of the Richest," January 30th).
Only the hyper-wealthy have estates big enough to reap rewards from such a change.
When Washington holds hands with dictators, or strikes oil deals that benefit only the hyper-wealthy, hatreds are remembered and passed down over the generations.
