To tribal leaders, oil wealth could be more lucrative and reliable than any casino — a resource whose royalties could transform a reservation scarred by poverty and alcoholism.
Having conned, cajoled, and terrorized his way through the underworld, Beck ironically proved to be a perfect mark for Holloway House, his longtime publisher, whose miniscule royalty checks never matched their extraordinary sales figures.
It has come to this for the chairwoman of a powerful Senate committee, a former up-and-comer in her party and onetime favorite daughter in a state whose political royalty includes President Bill Clinton and former Senators J. William Fulbright and Dale Bumpers.
"I got the check out of the mail… I saw what the gross was," said Drake, a third-generation Pennsylvania farmer whose monthly royalty payments for the same amount of gas plummeted from $5,300 in July 2012 to $541 last February.
If all goes to plan, Mr Levin may well spin some of these off into public companies in their own right in the next two years.Nothing if not ambitious, Mr Levin now plans to take Millennium closer to real medical products, whose rights, royalties and up-front payments are more lucrative.
Members of foreign royalty are also making official visits to India — even royalty whose ancestors were involved in colonization of the subcontinent centuries ago.
GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) — Andrew Grima, whose jewelry adorned royalty and celebrities, died here on Wednesday.
She had scouted many of them with Mr. LeRoy, a scion of Hollywood royalty whose father, Mervyn, produced "The Wizard of Oz".
Glamour Every night the red carpet is packed with the Hollywood names adored by Cannes' commercial sponsors – chief among them L'Oréal – French telly stars and exotic Euro-celeb royalty whose tans seem to have been obtained on Alpha Centauri.
So we will put aside the – also excellent – film starring George Clooney, and delve into this tragicomic novel about family and loss, which tells the story of a man, a wealthy landowner and descendant of Hawaiian royalty, whose wife falls into a coma after a boat-racing accident.
