Word: buys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airy territory of hardback fiction, where tastes are as refined as sales are poor. If he's lucky, some canny product get the film rights and turn it into a mini-series which those with brain cells can actually watch. Or perhaps he can persuade Avon books to buy it up, put on a slightly racy cover hinting of decadent Southern sensuality and drag a few suburban housewives into the realm of real literature. Otherwise, Mrs. Randall will remain a pleasure reserved only for those in the know...
...recently as last month, the newspaper said, Keith asked other developers to buy $100 tickets to a late May fundraiser for state Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald (D-Boston). Fitzgerald is House chairman of the Housing and Urban Development committee. The Developers Council also turned out in force at a 1986 fundraiser for Fitzgerald's Senate housing committee counterpart, Sen. Frederick Berry (D-Peabody...
...manager during the go-go '60s. Now the Shanghai-born whiz is chief executive of Primerica, formerly American Can, once a pillar of Smokestack America and currently a $2.9 billion financial-services conglomerate. Last week Tsai burst back onto Wall Street when Primerica announced that it had agreed to buy Smith Barney, one of the country's best-known brokerage firms, for $750 million...
...remains after deducting its first mortgage. But home-equity loans are different: they allow owners to put up their homes as collateral to open variable-rate, revolving-credit accounts good for up to 80% of the equity the homeowner has accrued. Because home-equity loans can be used to buy consumer items, including anything from stereos to luxury cars, their newfound allure comes from a loophole in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which phased out the deductibility of all interest payments except mortgage payments on principal and second homes. Home-equity borrowing currently offers markedly lower interest rates (about...
...interest. Kansas City's Commerce Bank will loan out no more than 70% of a home's appraised value, to avoid saddling customers with too much debt. Officers at Chicago's Continental Illinois are instructed to urge consumers to use the loans for necessities, not just to buy expensive goodies. The best advice to would-be borrowers remains the oldest: read the fine print before signing on the bottom line...