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With a well-paid civil service, Clive’s successors — Warren Hastings and Lord Cornwallis — avoided the collectors by padding their salaries with private deals.
(After Clive Ponting who leaked to the press details of the sinking of the Argentinian cruiser, General Belgrano.)
Treasure , Clive Cussler, Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Meanwhile, the British clerk-turned-soldier Robert Clive won a long campaign against the French for Madras.
His sparring partner was Clive Crook of the Economist , a publication that has repeatedly asserted that U.S. stock prices are not only excessively high but dangerously so and that the history of Japan's notorious "bubble economy" is being repeated.