Today, it remains the place where film stars, rock stars, footballers, supermodels and the super-rich step off their mega-yachts to preen and be seen.
Now, it is extremely rare in rich countries.For an illustration of how quickly some nations and their diets have grown richer, step into a crowded lift in a Japanese corporate HQ.
This is the time for the rich to step forward and assume their responsibility.
DON'T act all snobby and rich and step out of "gold limos" and stuff like that.
When they accept say "Come to my igloo, I am rich! " Follow step 3 of the above method.
The Group of Seven rich nations, stepping in together to calm global financial markets after a tumultuous week, agreed to join in rare concerted intervention to restrain a soaring yen.
They will eventually introduce you to their friends, and them to their friends, etc. Going to the pet shop and attracting babies by acting rich and stepping out of "limos" will not make you popular.
We are all spending a lot more money to educate our kids, and the richest have stepped up their spending more than everyone else.
On March 5th the government scored a victory when opposition leader Gagik Tsarukian, one of the country's richest men, stepped down as head of the Prosperous Armenia party that he had founded.
Chinese TV makers were threatened with an 84% tariff and Malaysian firms face tariffs of 46% if they are deemed guilty of dumping their products.Richard Li, a former whizz-kid Hong Kong dealmaker and son of Hong Kong's richest man, stepped down as chief executive of PCCW.
If rich countries would step up and put the right amount of money into the Global Fund then we shouldn't need to come back asking for more in eight years' time".
