A few strategic deals, some careful investing, and the AEthereal, Limited shareholders became vastly wealthy.

What distinguishes Ms. Walton from many other vastly wealthy collectors is that she carefully does her homework, curators and dealers say.

His father was a prosperous landholder, although not vastly wealthy in Mexican terms.

Over the broad sweep of history a modicum of abundance is a prerequisite for a golden age, but there have been many barren, vastly wealthy empires.

His mother was the greatest heiress of the age as the only surviving child of the vastly wealthy duc de Penthièvre.

He grew vastly wealthy, but took no pleasure in his wealth.

It is vastly wealthy.

Mr. Thaksin, 52, is a vastly wealthy telecommunications tycoon who entranced voters with his energetic, can-do manner.

The original creators, Mr. Burrows and the Charles brothers, have become, as one network executive put it, "vastly wealthy."

Mr. Mogilevich is considered smart, ruthless and vastly wealthy.