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...also wants to deflate "golden parachutes," which give special payments to executives if they leave a company after a takeover. If the sale of Esmark goes through, for example, Chairman Donald Kelly, 62, would collect three years' salary and sell his 245,000 shares of stock for $60 a share. Total reward: $17.4 million...
...fact, a chief criticism of lotteries is that they prey on the hopes, and wallets, of the poor. "I always felt that it was an insidious way to re-collect our welfare dollars," says Republican State Representative Tony Van Vliet of Oregon. Lottery enthusiasts, however, contend that different games attract different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median...
...others: Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss and Herbert von Karajan, all of whom found the Viennese insatiable thirst for intrigue intolerable. But Maazel's departure also marks a new round in a process that seems to have become habitual among international maestros today: they trade top jobs and collect new ones like baseball cards...
Mondale's aides would very much like to collect New Jersey as "insurance." Even so, they insist that Mondale could lose all the remaining contests and still reach the 1,967 mark. Agrees a congressional Democratic leader: "Mondale doesn't really need to win any more to put him over the top." Reason: he should do very well among the 219 "superdelegates" and 39 at-large delegates still to be picked from among party leaders and state officials...
...hungry Finance Minister Jacques Delors swoops down from a helicopter to collect the franc used in the coin toss of a soccer match. Intent on projecting French military power abroad. Defense Minister Charles Hernu leads an attack against the tiny principality of Monaco: "Ack-ack-ack!" President Francois Mitterrand interrupts his compulsive globetrotting for a rare visit to Paris and, shuddering at what he finds, hightails away again...