Word: dealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deal, you might think. Tuxedos are uncomfortable, it was a warm May evening and Harvard students are working themselves to the bone during spring reading period. It's true that none of these detail seems outstanding at first glance, and when I first saw the picture I simply shrugged off my miserable looks to bad timing...
...Phillip Jones, an old friend of Dexter King's, the martyred leader's son who heads the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Jones' firm, Intellectual Properties Management, is responsible for marketing the Rev. King's writings and speeches. With Jones' help, King's relatives have made deals that could net them and their agents tens of millions of dollars: one deal with Hollywood conspiracist Oliver Stone for a film about the assassination; another with Time Warner, this magazine's owner, for a series of books and multimedia projects. Neither Pepper nor Jones wants the controversy about King...
...deal has been signed and sent and now awaits clearance from the CFL Player's Association and the league. Although Fleiszer can't say exactly what he's making, he says, "I'm definitely not hurting myself by doing this instead of investment banking or consulting...
...Iraq. Saddam Hussein never manages to stay out of the news for very long. If he complies with the latest weapons inspections deal, look for a fight over lifting U.N. sanctions on Iraq. If he doesn't, round up the posse, it's time for more old-fashioned American Big-Stick diplomacy...
...Tobacco. In the tobacco companies, Congress has found a group that is even more demonized than itself. In its zeal to capitalize on this unusual advantage, our elected representatives have proposed a harsher version of the deal struck last summer between the companies and numerous states to reduce teenage smoking. In response, the tobacco bosses have threatened to pull out of the negotiations with Congress and plead their case before the public. The O. J.-like contortions needed to convince us that these merchants of death are deserving of our sympathy will be so absurd that it'll be hard...