Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Operating out of a small, unpretentious office in Newton, Mass., during the early '70s, Osserman and Garfinkle became titans in the tax-shelter business. Osserman, described by associates as the "brains" of the operation, was known to promise new clients that they would never have to pay another dime in taxes. In 1975 the two lawyers joined forces with Producers Meyer and Friedman, whose show-biz connections helped catch the stars as investors. A year later, the group leased 22,000 acres in Wyoming, ostensibly to develop coal deposits. The investors signed notes specifying that for every dollar they...
...contract expires, and leaders pledge to fight the University tooth-and-nail. Crockett says, "Harvard doesn't like to give up money. They say they're broke, but then they build a $100,000 building." Bonislawski says, "It really gets to me when Harvard says workers are a dime a dozen. We should have the benefits of the wealth we help produce...
...Sisyphus and we are all Midas, pushing a rock of gold west to California, knowing it will never cross the continental divide, knowing it will chase us down the mountain, knowing it will crush us with the weight of a shimy dime falling from the top of the Empire State...
Although Dornan and Peck debated 17 times in 1978, there have been only two this year. At one of the forums, Peck demanded an apology from his opponent for his campaign attacks. Dornan responded by slapping a coin down on the table: "Here's a dime, character. Use it to call and congratulate...
Peck may get to keep that dime. Dornan's tactics have turned off voters and helped win Peck the endorsement of Dornan's predecessor, eight-term Republican Alphonzo Bell, who stayed neutral in 1978. He now criticizes Dornan's "extremist, right-wing viewpoints." Although Dornan and Peck are running about even in the polls, political experts give Peck a good shot at pulling ahead...