Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When journalists dig for the darker side of Schwarzenegger's youth, something is there that makes him angry. Arnold, a tattly biography by British free-lancer Wendy Leigh, asserts that Schwarzenegger's father joined the Nazi Party in 1938 and that his older brother Meinhard died in a car crash after drinking heavily. Schwarzenegger attended the funeral of neither man. Leigh also charges Arnold with brutal practical jokes, coarse womanizing and relentless taunting of opponents in his body-building days. The star has dismissed Leigh's contentions, saying, "I don't want to give a third-grade journalist any credibility...
...deep, dig it out and give it toFlo," Burke said. "He knows what to do with...
...normal year, late November is the time to break out the mittens, dig up those old packets of instant hot chocolate and invest in a stockpile of firewood. But this year, November 28 will be remembered as the day that Harvard students felt more inspired to sunbathe than to sleigh...
Friedman added that in order to get justice in Southern courts, defense attorneys often have "to dig up dirt" on judges and prosecuting attorneys, so they can use it as collateral against them...
Overleverage doesn't necessarily lead to the poorhouse. Some companies have been able to dig themselves out. Santa Fe Southern Pacific, which borrowed $4 billion to elude a hostile takeover bid in 1987, managed to repay the debt last March, four years ahead of schedule. The Chicago-based company sold its timber business as well as its pipeline, construction and leasing divisions. Media and entertainment giant Time Warner, which has nearly $11 billion in borrowings, hopes to grow its way out of debt without selling off assets. Says N.J. Nicholas, co-chief executive: "We can live with debt. It only...