Word: dollars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cable companies, which oppose the FCC proposal, argue that phone users would be forced to subsidize the multibillion-dollar cost of installing wires able to carry both voice and video signals. The possible result: higher phone bills...
...dollar spent by Senator Bentsen in Texas, whether for the Senate or the vice presidential campaign, is going to directly and immediately benefit both," said Olsten. "It just isn't fair...
...three times, or you can take my word for it." Which is sound advice. Mayer has been one of the educated layman's best guides to the covert worlds of Wall Street and finance. The Bankers (1974) was a best seller. More recent books include The Fate of the Dollar (1980) and The Money Bazaars...
Douglass Wallop's 1954 novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, reflects that innocent era before AstroTurf, designated hitters and utility infielders with multimillion-dollar contracts. But every middle-aged baseball fan can still appreciate the Faustian temptation at the core of both the novel and the hit Broadway musical it inspired, Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd is a paunchy real estate salesman condemned to root for his hapless hometown team, the now defunct Washington Senators. The devil, who prefers the moniker Applegate, offers to transform Joe into the greatest slugger in the history of the game. Applegate's price...
...poor Greek immigrants and the son of a poor black family in South Carolina. Jackson's aide, Bob Borosage, said wryly when he heard this: "Yeah, only in America can the son of a Brookline doctor from Harvard's medical school, who left his family million-dollar trusts, end up with the illegitimate son of a black woman in South Carolina." Dukakis grew up with the children of middle-class professionals who knew they must keep striving, but who were certain they could affect the world around them. Children grew up early in Brookline -- which may be why Dukakis...