Word: alongs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fruit's lobbyists--along with those from competitors like the Sara Lee Corp., which makes Hanes underwear, and retailers like the Limited and the Gap--are pushing hard for passage. Fruit officials claim the measure, which Bill Clinton supports, will create jobs, and deny that the company's donations can buy influence. Says Ron Sorini, a Fruit lobbyist: "There's absolutely no correlation between our soft-money donations and those who decide to vote in favor of this bill...
They're known as "The Boys." So close have Tony and Hugh Rodham been to their sister Hillary Rodham Clinton that they tagged along on the Clintons' 1975 honeymoon. Always overshadowed by their high-wattage sibling, they began a new chapter in their lives when Bill and Hillary moved to the White House. Was it a blessing or a curse, this kinship to the Leader of the Free World...
...several years shared a bachelor pad in Coral Gables, Fla., but their first major business venture together was a $118 million plan to grow and export hazelnuts from the former Soviet republic of Georgia. This seemed attractive in light of a booming Western demand for hazelnut-flavored confections. Along with Stephen Graham, Tony's sometime partner and an occasional advanceman for Mrs. Clinton, the brothers flew to Georgia in August to look over the operation...
...doesn't yield good science, it should yield good TV. The Discovery Channel partly bankrolled the project, and a documentary chronicling the work is scheduled to air March 12. Daily updates are available at the Discovery website discovery.com) Fifteen minutes of fame may take 20,000 years to come along, but come along it nonetheless does...
...bank had only $15 million in deposits. Then along came a miserly Pittsburgh, Pa., financier named J. Knox McConnell, who drove an old Buick and wore threadbare suits but was worth $23 million. He hired only women--"Knox's Foxes," they were called--to discourage distracting office romances. His longtime companion was Billie Cherry, a woman who worked for him. Cherry and her friend Terry Church followed Knox from Pittsburgh to Keystone. The bank moved aggressively into the national market for "subprime" home-equity loans, which are riskier than first mortgages but generate higher interest payments. Keystone was earning about...