Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...down in 1990, contrary to the wishes of many shareholders. It won't make all his problems go away, not by a long shot. But what amounts to a small gesture by Eisner is a very big deal for do-it-yourself investors. Direct-stock-purchase programs are a dirt-cheap way to invest small sums on a regular basis in some of the world's best companies--and, yes, that would still include Disney. The programs let you buy stock directly from the company, saving the brokerage commission. If you have $50 or $100 a month to invest...
...Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra, which alleged that the singer's mother was an abortionist, and Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography, which alleged that the former First Lady and Sinatra enjoyed a White House dalliance. The author's latest is a multigenerational saga about the House of Windsor, promising dirt on everyone from King George V to the late Princess of Wales. The catch--or the break, depending on your point of view--is Diana's accidental death just three weeks before the book's publication date...
...ranch was just a getaway, but Reagan the actor knew how to turn a piece of dirt into a stage for a simple cowboy, gamboling in the wide-open spaces, in touch with the eternal verities. The place is already Disneyfied: Climb Mount Rhino, the resting place of the family pets as well as Ronnie's steed Little Man! Visit Heart Rock, where Ronnie and Nancy carved their initials! See where Queen Elizabeth slept! Launch a boat on Lake Lucky, the pond where Reagan kept his goldfish! But don't expect Wally World, or even the run of the place...
...Carola Eisenberg takes the road less traveled by-from the dirt roads of Latin American villages ravaged by war to halls at Harvard Medical School which, before her arrival in 1969, were unaccustomed to the tread of a female dean of students...
...billing partner at the firm, routinely grossing a seven-figure sum. At a firm in which, as a former partner put it, "you eat what you kill"--that is, you pocket everything after deducting your expenses and a share of the firm's overhead--Knight had hit pay dirt. In 1995 he billed $2.9 million. At one point Knight even garnered a $1 million "success fee" for helping a client achieve a particular outcome, according to several former partners...