Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eisner is no doubt the best-paid grounds keeper in America. Last year he earned a bonus of nearly $6 million on top of his $750,000 salary, based on a formula that takes into account the company's profits. Besides that, Eisner and Wells hold 3.84 million shares of stock and stock options that were given to them as an incentive when they came aboard the struggling company. If they exercised all their options and sold the shares at the current price of 56, they would net $160 million between them...
...reason Dukakis has been able to raise far more than any other Democrat is that he can tap into a national network of proud Greek Americans. They account for about 20% of his war chest. On his first visit to Queens, N.Y., last year, he was met by Greeks waving $20 bills. In addition, more than 30% of Dukakis' donations come from Massachusetts. Much of the rest is given by affluent, civic-minded professionals, urban and suburban, who are willing to write checks and line up friends to do the same. And no one is better at sowing and reaping...
...movie version of Jay McInerney's bestseller is getting a bad rap which seems to confirm the bad reputation it earned before it was even released. Oh no, the detractors said, another up-in-coke account of yuppie New York. Oh no, they added, Michael J. Fox plays an arrogant asshole once again. But BLBC is worth your viewing time. It is quite well done and true to the spirit and plot of the novel...
...Palladium, staring at a skinheaded female bartender who's asking him what's wrong. "You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning," an overvoice tells us, quoting the first line of McInerney's second-person account...
Though he has not said publicly what sins he committed, sordid details will be forthcoming just a few weeks after he goes back on the air. Penthouse magazine has solicited, for an undisclosed sum, Prostitute Debra Murphree to give her account of the pornographic acts Swaggart paid her to perform for him over a year's time. The preacher's ministry is already losing $1.8 million a month and could be hurt further by those revelations...