31.   He made a fortune on Wall Street and enjoys trappings of great wealth like a private jet and a lavish vacation home in Jackson Hole, Wyo.

32.   He was compulsive talker and pontificated about great wealth, prolonging life, curing sick children and feeding the hungry.

33.   He was the second of six children in a family of great wealth, but he and his branch of a woolen-manufacturing dynasty were social outcasts.

34.   His ability to deliver a gripping narrative and establish an exotic setting won Clavell millions of readers and great wealth.

35.   I speak with mildly facetious cynicism, of course, for no serious person truly believes our state legislators can be purchased by malefactors of great wealth.

36.   In many cities, orchestra trustees represent the corporate elite, high society and families with great personal wealth.

37.   In the past decade, high-tech companies have generated great wealth for entrepreneurs and stockholders, and provided workers with the fattest paychecks in history.

38.   Increasingly, political parties are turning to candidates who can self-finance or who have great personal wealth to fall back on if the campaign account runs low.

39.   Indeed, too little is said about the potential discouragement to enterprise and ambition for those who start life with the assurance of great wealth.

40.   Investors bid the equipment companies to price-earnings ratios never before seen for large stocks, creating great wealth for employees and executives.