Word: cash
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former attorney at the department and daughter of a Republican Party fund raiser. She is in line to be named Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Said a department employee about Secretary Lujan: "It looks like he is filling the ranks with folks who brought in the cash...
...shopping malls in Thailand look just like the ones in Mississippi; why he hung real crystals on his black knit dresses ("The spiritual thing was cute, but mainly I liked the way they looked"); how maybe he lends clothes to certain actresses, "but Goldie Hawn paid cold cash"; reflections on culture ("I like museums -- but really fast. I can do a museum in half an hour"). Autobiography can be selective. He won't reveal his age (mid-30s by deduction). "It puts you in a category," he insists. "You're not fresh enough to be new." Ask him about...
...primarily interested in getting an education; they see college as a stepping-stone to a lucrative pro career. When Eldridge Hudson graduated from high school in 1982, he was named Player of the Year in Los Angeles and was ardently wooed by college recruiters with offers of cars and cash. "I didn't even want to go to college," says Eldridge. "I wanted to go to the N.B.A.. My life is basketball, period...
...begins with the high school players recruited by the school. A single talented player can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to a college -- and, indirectly, to a coach. The NCAA prohibits recruiters from offering money to prospective players. But many student athletes say recruiters offered them cash, cars and jewelry. For some young players, and especially for their families, the promise of educational help can swing their decision. It is not only the larger schools that have problems...
...University of Nevada-Las Vegas basketball players, David Butler and Moses Scurry, walked through the casino at Caesars Palace and out to the pool to have lunch with a man they knew as Sam Perry. As Perry rose to greet the two, he drew a wad of cash from his pocket and peeled off a bill for each of them. "I gave them a hundred bucks, so what?" Perry told Art Ross, a professional coach who was sitting with Perry. "Everybody does it. It keeps them out of trouble...