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Warren Buffett is arguably the world's greatest investor. Even as a child he was fascinated by the concept of risk and probability, setting up his first business at the age of six. In he bought struggling Massachusetts textile firm Berkshire Hathaway and grew it to be the 12th largest corporation in the US purely through the exercise of sound investing principles - a feat never equalled in the annals of business. His only indulgence is a private jet, an extravagance he wryly acknowledges by calling it "The Indefensible".
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All year the half-bloods have been preparing for battle against the Titans, knowing the odds of victory are grim. Kronos's army is stronger than ever, and with every god and half-blood he recruits, the evil Titan's power only grows. While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
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The world may be an unforgiving place to live. However, when you are at your lowest, people begin to withdraw, leaving you alone. It tells the tale of a young man who was raised in an orphanage after his father died. Fortunately, he later married a lovely woman from a respectable household. But his life is still unpleasant. Except for his wife, no one in his extended family likes or respects him. His in-laws were usually ashamed and disregarded him. One day, he discovers that the aunt who brought him to the orphanage is dying.
This modest and nice woman needs ten million dollars for her therapy. As predicted, they refused to assist him and mocked him. He went to the hospital to obtain the bills he needed to pay, but his aunt had already been transferred to another large hospital, and someone had already paid all of her medical expenses. Who had paid the bills, he was astounded to learn? When his grandfather, the wealthiest person in the country, enters the storey, the plot changes. His grandpa kicked his mother and father out of the home a few years ago.
Now that his grandpa is nearing the end of his life, he wishes for his grandson to inherit his property.
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