Word: donalds
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...takeover-crazed 1980s, a cheeky business-school dropout named Donald Carter transformed the humdrum job of counting ballots at corporate shareholder meetings into a multimillion-dollar business. As head of the Carter Organization, he orchestrated campaigns to persuade shareholders to back corporate raiders. For his work, he collected ten times the going rate. But the proxy prince scooped up some illegal gravy as well. Last week in a New York State court, Carter pleaded guilty to stealing $1 million from his clients through false billing...
Congressman Ralph Regula of Ohio recently proposed an alternative: returning the city to Maryland, which donated the land 199 years ago. That idea got scant attention until Governor William Donald Schaefer surprised everyone by saying he would accept "retrocession." But black leaders such as Jesse Jackson have denounced the proposal, Schaefer has backed away, and congressional insiders say forget it. Thus, Washington is likely to remain what statehooders call the last colony for the foreseeable future...
Prudent or not, the huge amounts being ponied up by TV are changing the economics of pro sports. Major-league baseball's billion-dollar TV pact is an unspoken issue looming behind the current baseball lockout. "The television revenue isn't being produced by the owners," says Donald Fehr, head of the players' union. "It's being produced by the players. The lion's share of the television money ought to go to the players." With the N.F.L.'s just completed TV deal, clubs will be making money even before they sell a single admission ticket. "The rights fees fueled...
...Jennifer Capriati during a week when she earned $28,000 on the tennis court alone, probably more than some of those teachers make in a year. They will face that question again and again in months to come. Capriati, for anyone who missed the biggest media hoopla since the Donald Trump divorce scandal, is a sturdily built 5-ft. 6 1/2-in. 13-year-old with nerve, force and a powerful backhand -- plus a business manager, a press agent and a sometime coach named Billie Jean King. She is also, in the far-from- isolated judgment of veteran NBC tennis commentator...
...probably won't. That sort of response went out with the retreat from Afghanistan and the introduction of Pizza Hut to Bucharest. Gorbachev the born-again capitalist should screw his adversaries and make them think they're getting the better deal. That's what Donald Trump advises...