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...likely to cost him many votes, but the longer it plays out, the more embarrassing it is for the city. In one meeting, Archer urged Guyton to drum up more community support so that the administration could back the project more forcefully. "You need to take off your artist cap and put on your business hat," he said...
Another departure from the past has to do with the stocks of small companies. They typically do not pay a dividend--the payoff is in price appreciation. That makes them more desirable when the cap-gains rate falls because dividends get taxed as ordinary income--a higher rate for most investors. Yet big stocks have been rising fastest all year, and that could persist. Why? Big stocks, as defined by the S&P 500, now have a measly 1.6% dividend yield, vs. 6% in the early '80s. In short, they're also being managed for growth instead of income...
...watch is, to all appearances, an ordinary timepiece. But tucked into a small cylinder that blends with its gray titanium casing is a 2-ft. antenna. To activate the beacon, you unscrew the cap and unreel the antenna. Approved for use in Europe and Asia (and, pending FCC approval, in the U.S.), the $5,000 Swiss watch also keeps pretty good time...
...Blazing Ben" or "the Hawk." Ben Hogan had almost as many nicknames as he did victories in golf's major championships, and that was nine. The sobriquets were mainly attempts to inject a little color into a man whose personality matched his no-nonsense golfing attire--white linen cap, beige shirt and sharply pressed slacks...
...wealthy lovers gave him the money for his expensive clothes and the $1,000 restaurant tabs he would pick up for groups of friends. Cunanan was presentable, sufficiently well informed about politics and the arts to make conversation, and given to conservative, preppy clothes, or sweatshirts and a baseball cap. Versace's glam merchandise was not his style. All the same, nobody describes him as reserved. Jesse Cappachione, manager of the Midnight Sun, a bar in the gay Castro district, says that from 1990 to 1992 a well-dressed Cunanan turned up almost every night to buy drinks for everybody...