Word: enriching
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...warned: you will cry while watching Mr. Holland's Opus, directed by Stephen Herek (The Mighty Ducks) and starring Richard Dreyfuss as a music teacher at an Oregon high school. You may be inspired by the movie's Wonderful Life message: that we can do good--help people, enrich lives--in a job we thought was a shoddy compromise with our career dreams. You could leave the dodecaplex feeling better about academe, Hollywood and your own warm, sensitive self. But know this: you should feel bad about feeling good, because Mr. Holland's Opus takes meretricious short cuts...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Should American families be taxed to enrich the shareholders of powerful companies like Disney, Time Warner, and TCI? Raising that question in Thursday's New York Times, columnist William Safire reports that Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole told him that the sweeping telecommunications reform bill, already passed by the House and Senate and now in conference to resolve differences, effectively loans telecom giants immensely valuable new digital bandwidths worth an estimated $70 billion. "This is a big, big corporate welfare project," Safire says Dole told him. "Here we're cutting Medicaid and doing all the painful things while...
Jonathan C. Metters, account executive of Clark and Company, the firm handling the publicity for the race, said the new technology will greatly enrich the race...
...that market ought to grow because the Baby Bells are replacing their old analog switches in central offices with digital switches that cost at least $500,000 each. But the Baby Bells have been turning to foreign suppliers, largely because they do not want to enrich a competitor in phone service...
JOHN HAMILTON HAS LEARNED TO HIS sorrow that bank mergers like last week's $10 billion union of Chemical Banking Corp. and Chase Manhattan can enrich investors but hurt depositors. Hamilton fled his own bank in Washington last year after the giant First Union Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, acquired it and raised the minimum balance for no-fee checking from $250 to $500. "We couldn't meet that every month," says Hamilton, president of a nonprofit community-development group, who shifted his money to his wife's credit union. Unlike most consumers, Hamilton isn't watching the trend passively...