Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Quayle's wealthy family may have helped to get him out of the Vietnam War are proven true, Quayle will soon be off the ticket, and for good reason. After all, it's awfully easy to proclaim your support for an aggressive, intervientionist foreign policy when your Dad helped buy your way out of military service...
...most fully investigated case so far, former Merrill Lynch Broker William Dillon, 33, is believed to have paid employees at a magazine printing plant in Connecticut to give him copies of Business Week a full day before the issue was available to the general public so he could buy stocks recommended in the "Inside Wall Street" column before the price went up. Dillon typically paid $30 an issue, but allegedly reaped profits of $2,000 or more a week...
Often the cash vanishes from vaults only to reappear in the wallets of executives, who use it for personal pleasure. After Bell Savings and Loan of San Mateo, Calif., failed in 1985 with losses totaling $495 million, authorities found that Partner David Butler had used corporate funds to buy expensive racing airplanes for his exclusive use. Butler pleaded guilty to two felony counts and is awaiting sentencing. In the ongoing investigation of the failure of Texas-based Vernon Savings and Loan, in which regulators charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior...
...Englishman who is the Enquirer's current ace reporter. Wright once posed as a florist's messenger, delivering roses to Megan Marshack, the staffer who had been with Nelson Rockefeller when he died and was holed up in her apartment trying to avoid the press. "I nearly had to buy the truck to get the setup right," he recalls. John Blackburn, an American who at one time was a rewrite man for the tabs, agrees that the "Brits have guts. They do things Americans wouldn't do, like taking a picture off a mantelpiece when there's been a death...
Although breaking the bias against condom ads in magazine advertising was rough going at first, the pages of Ms., Cosmopolitan and Mademoiselle, among others, regularly feature attractive models asking female readers, "Would you ( buy a condom for this man?" or "Why take your fears to bed?" Purrs one ad: "When you place a new Trojan for Women in his hands, it will show you're thinking about his health...