Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...IRAs that is now playing at workplaces that range from factory floors to coal mines. In Birmingham, Ala., the Robinson-Humphrey Co. brokerage firm rented a hotel ballroom to tell people of the virtues of IRAs. Western Federal Savings & Loan Association in Los Angeles calls its retirement plans "fat-cat accounts" and promotes them with posters, balloons and badges that depict a smirking feline figure even plumper than Garfield...
...Milan apartment, on a dead-end street only a short walk from his office in Palazzo Durini, is a sort of luxury-class version of a Japanese monk's cell. He shares the seven rooms with a gray Persian cat named Micio. Except for Micio and a Japanese screen, practically everything in the living area was designed by Armani himself, who is mulling over the addition of furniture to his assorted ventures. Certainly the low couches and chairs here, all covered with satinized cotton, and the sculpted rectangular table in a favorite Armani shade of taupe, represent a strong...
...Dutch Shea Jr. get to be such a burnt-out case? There is the immediate anguish caused by the death of his adopted daughter Catherine. "Cat" was dismembered by an I.R.A. bomb in a London restaurant. Shea also fears the impending blast of an audit. He has misused funds from estates he was supposed to oversee. Fear and shame are magnified because his father was a lawyer who hanged himself in prison, where he was serving time for embezzlement...
...fate of the U.S. economy were not at stake, there might be some macabre enjoyment in watching the cat-and-mouse game being played out in Washington over Ronald Reagan's proposed budget for fiscal 1983. The President's men look at Capitol Hill and argue, in the words of one, "We have to let the process up there cook a while longer. It needs to bake some." Convinced that a projected $96.4 billion federal deficit is unacceptable, Republicans stare back at the White House, hoping for a sign of presidential compromise. Gleefully eyeing the disarray within...
...noticed because I was worrying about the motor stalling My right foot braked; there was a crunch of metal against metal and a thud when my left arm hit the dashboard. What would my father think? What about the lady in the other car? What about the Oranges' cat...