Word: duck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Association of Mutual Savings Banks:' "It's this simple: the money market funds have been a disaster for our industry." Some normally antiregulation financiers are now demanding controls on the money market funds similar to the ones banks face. Adds Klaman: "If you look like a duck and waddle like a duck, you ought to be regulated like a duck...
...said Samm Sinclair Baker, who co-authored the book. But Tarnower also hunted big game in Africa, birds in the Carolinas and Newfoundland and went fly-fishing in Iceland and Scotland. Above ail, he was fond of giving small, elegant dinner parties at his brick house, which overlooked a duck pond and a statue of Buddha. Twice a day he weighed himself to make sure he stayed at 174 Ibs., but he rarely had to diet. He once explained: "My cravings are not for Big Macs, but for low-calorie Italian white truffles...
...successful Minneapolis banker who said he drove his combination library and duck hunting truck into the marshes to read, not to kill ducks. We drove to the suburbs to his eight bedroom house, swimming pool, and pleasant wife. He had a 23 year old son and an impressionable, fatherless niece, whose wholesomeness vied with the breakfast of eggs benedict...
...govern as if we had a majority," even though the Tories, with 136 seats out of the total of 282, were five short of parliamentary control. Confidently assuming that Trudeau's political career was over and that the Liberals would not dare risk an election with a lame-duck leader, Clark brought out a belt-tightening budget, which Finance Minister Crosbie described as "short-term pain for long-term gain." The Tories did not even attempt to obtain the support of the Créditistes or the New Democrats, which could have kept them in power. When the three...
...after telling what his wife Nancy called "the ethnic joke to end all ethnic jokes," Reagan found himself forced to apologize to anyone who might have taken offense. Reagan's joke: "How do you tell the Polish one at a cockfight?" "He's the one with the duck." "How do you tell the Italian?" "He bet on the duck." "How do you know the Mafia is there?" "The duck wins...