Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emerged as the rarest of players: one without a weakness--and a player who thrived and hungered for big games. To Danny Ainge, who played against him and coached against him, Jordan was the ultimate assassin--"he comes not just to kill you but to cut your heart...
...life he leads now. His family owned a pork-packing plant in Philadelphia. From the age of eight, he spent summers and holidays working alongside blood-splattered hog dressers as they turned pigs into pork chops. "You see people walking around with huge knives and livestock being cut up," Klayman says. "I guess you have to be brought up in that kind of environment to be able to accept and enjoy the challenge of taking on a force as great as the Clinton Administration." If Clinton's enemies need a happy warrior by their side, Larry Klayman has the knives...
Greenberg is a bit of a ham, but even he had to cut off interviews about Viagra after the requests threatened to grow longer than the S&P 500. Earlier, his much larger gifts--to the United Jewish Appeal, the Widows and Orphans Fund, the New York Public Library, among others--had elicited almost no attention. Known to be a pushover for a hard-luck story, he got this idea from a newspaper. "I saw an article saying that at $10 apiece, a lot of impotent men wouldn't be able to afford it. So I said, 'Kathy [his wife...
...that states are suddenly flush with cash, they're starting to give some back to taxpayers. At least 14 states--including Arizona, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska and New York--have used sky-high tax revenues to cut personal income taxes in 1998, according to a new study. Tax revenues are still rising, so there could be more cuts coming...
State Farm Mutual, which has already cut car-insurance rates about 2% in some parts of the country this year, said last week it would refund some $900 million to policyholders in 35 states. Thanks to safer cars and drivers who are aging and more cautious, insurance claims are slowing down. With competitors like Allstate and Progressive likely to follow the industry leader, drivers should shop around for a company willing to share the wealth. --By Daniel Eisenberg