Most of Russia's biggest energy companies are owned by a small group of fabulously rich oligarchs.

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And you know, nobody expected to get fabulously rich, although it was great if people got rich.

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And it would be so whether or not a fabulously rich former venture capital CEO was the Republican front-runner.

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Masayoshi Son's golden touch in Web investing has made him fabulously rich.

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While we wait for the winners to step forward, most of the rest of us will have to come to terms with the fact that we will probably never be fabulously rich.

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One of Mr Obama's luckiest breaks in a luck-laden career came in 2003, when Mr Axelrod agreed to run his Senate campaign rather than that of another potential client, Blair Hull, a fabulously rich investor.

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There are very few ways to become rich and powerful quickly, but Prince Albert found one: Have fabulously wealthy ancestors.

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