Word: borrower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Borrow and Buy. Such sports-struck businessmen, and other Clevelanders like them, did not get together by accident. They were mobilized by Nick James Mileti, 42, son of Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...
...investor syndicates to buy teams sets him apart from most owners in big-time sport. Even at a time of explosive growth in professional athletics, most front offices have remained a stamping ground for rich in dividuals or families. Mileti is a wheeler-dealer who must borrow before...
...world's greatest verbal prudes seem to be the Nupe of West Africa, a tribe that does not have a native word for defecate, menstruation or semen. For sexual intercourse, they are forced to borrow from Arabic a chaste verb meaning "to connect...
...stumped indefatigably through the state's heavily Democratic back country. To meet expenses, he passed the hat at bean dinners and watermelon feasts, borrowed from banks, and so overstrained his credit that wags described his campaign as the first ever to be financed on a Diners' Club card. At a small fund-raising event in Tulsa, Hall had to leave the restaurant, race to a friend's house and borrow enough money to cover the dinner bill. But it all paid off on election day, when Hall won by 2,181 votes...
...loophole by taxing as income dividends earned within the state. The taxes obviously did not win him the kind of friends who write substantial checks to help politicians meet their bills. "You need many, many small contributions," says Hall. "Otherwise, there is no way to do it unless you borrow and go into debt." He went into debt of various kinds...