Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Dixon, in an interview with a Madison radio station, said he thought it was "clearly possible and even probable that Senator Hart will re-enter the presidential race...
...benefit of the press but for 15 senior staffers at his Denver headquarters. "I realize that I've hurt people and let all of you down, and I apologize," he told his aides during a two-hour farewell meeting in the cramped corner office of Campaign Manager William Dixon. "There are a lot of idealistic 23-year-old kids out there that I have hurt, and I want you to tell them that I'm sorry and that they should not get discouraged and should keep working for what they believe...
Hart's personal financial situation is not precarious, say close colleagues, but he has so little accumulated wealth that with two children in college, he needed to begin work immediately. Said Dixon: "Like the rest of us, he can't afford to interrupt that income stream. He can't just take a year off and write novels." The author of two novels already, Hart does hope to start another one in his spare time...
...other questionable investments. In many cases the institutions also succumbed to old-fashioned peculation. A spectacular case in point was the Vernon Savings & Loan Association of North Dallas, which was shut down in March with a deficit of more than $350 million. Vernon was purchased in 1982 by Don Dixon, 48, a North Dallas real estate developer. In six years Dixon pushed Vernon's assets from $82 million to $1.7 billion through wildly risky loans and real estate ventures. Two weeks ago the FSLIC charged that Dixon and six former Vernon executives "looted, wasted and dissipated" at least $140 million...
Since the match was played in the indoor courts of Palmer Dixon--which has only three courts as opposed to the eight outdoors courts of Palmer Dixon--because of bad weather conditions, the Crimson only had to win the first five out of six individual matches to clinch the title...