Word: allene
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ONLY THE TRUTH IS FUNNY. Jack Rollins and Charlie Joffe manage Woody Allen and David Letterman. Their new client, the first in more than a decade, is Rick Reynolds, whose lacerating autobiographical stand-up gets both laughs and tears off-Broadway...
...pastiche of dry statistics and commercial puffery, connoisseurs of corporate entertainment eagerly await each year's version -- particularly the plain- spoken chairman's letter, written by superinvestor Warren Buffett. In the Omaha-based holding company's 1990 edition, released last month, the author quotes such thinkers as Woody Allen, Bertrand Russell and Buffett's four-year- old granddaughter Emily, while characteristically mocking his own financial acumen...
...suspicious of real estate industry hope and hype, listen to Barbara Allen, housing-industry analyst for Kidder, Peabody: "It's more than a little upturn. It's quite powerful, and it is across the country. In Chicago orders in the resale market for the first two months of the year were up smartly. In St. Louis the place is absolutely booming." Realtors who were doing the crosswords a month ago now have waiting rooms full of eager clients...
...Barbara Allen of Kidder, Peabody estimates U.S. demand for new housing at 1.3 million to 1.4 million units a year for the next 10 years, including replacement housing. Yet little is being invested in land development, and as Allen points out, "You can't build a house unless you have a lot that has all the roads, permits and governmental O.K.s. It takes a long time...
...David Allen Anthony isn't out there to make an easy buck, or to get to the top. Anthony, who spends his days pacing around Harvard Square hawking copies of The Square Deal, does what he does because he wants to help out his fellow Cantabridgians...