Word: assets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...later for muffins, kneading bread and waiting on the clientele. "I thought she might be a snob at first when she was a customer," recalls Jason Lord, one of her many college-age co-workers, "but she was a very good person." Kenneth Starr certainly considers her an asset, granting her immunity before her grand-jury testimony. That will insulate her from perjury charges for any lies she may have told in her deposition to Paula Jones' lawyers and may help protect her from prosecution in connection with any financial or tax improprieties. All she has to worry about...
...start with the tax rate you will pay on capital gains from the sale of stocks or bonds or other assets. The old rate was 28% on any asset held at least 12 months. The new rate is 20% on any asset held at least 18 months, or 28% if held 12 to 18 months. Then and now, gains on assets held less than 12 months are taxed as ordinary income, at rates...
Besides the movie's constant-laugh screenplay, its biggest asset is the performance of Jeff Bridges, who seems to have found the role of his career in the Dude. The Dude lives in small apartment in decidedly un-chic part of L.A., in the already mythic time of "the early '90s," as the film's oddly anachronistic cowboy-narrator tells us. If pressured ever so slightly, the Dude will admit that he's a bum--but it's obviously a term that he takes some pride...
...Jimmy Carter's greatest asset that he was a new face; he offered the promise of accountability in Washington and an end to Henry Kissinger's secretive realpolitik abroad. He got mixed results at home. So in the same way that Nixon found a legacy in his opening to China, Carter turned to the Panama Canal treaties and the Camp David peace accords. Both were milestones typical of the era. In one, the U.S. agreed to give up a prime keepsake of its earlier expansion; in the other, it mediated where it was powerless to dictate...
...company's strength has become its weakness. Reader's Digest has been unable to exploit its greatest core asset: a monster database. Despite 100 million households logged in and millions of dollars spent maintaining the data, the company has yet to find an effective way to match products with new consumers. "They are wedded to the past," says Minow...