Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, powerfully-built man, he bulges with fat and money. But his fat, instead of making him look slovenly, molds his face and body into a statue of a Rodin here, overwhelming and powerful in its grotesque beauty. He walks slowly and carries a cane andsends his daughters to Foxcroft and last week set a record for a buyer at Keeneland by spending $986,000 for 14 yearling horses...
...their jobs. Woodcock, 59, is a quiet intellectual. He sometimes speaks so softly that he can barely be heard, and he spends much of his free time listening to classical music. He is under intense pressure from an unruly rank and file to hold out for a fat settlement. Discussing the problem of absenteeism, he once admitted that the union's younger members "just do not respond to the threat of discipline." Every move he makes will be compared with what U.A.W. members think Reuther would have done, and Reuther had a reputation for squeezing out the last possible...
Each one is about the size of a short section cut from a fat broomstick handle. Normally used at a range of 50 to 125 ft., they strike with roughly the impact of a policeman's nightstick. At such distances the plugs cause bruises, but they break bones only at closer range...
...pooling, an acquiring company writes the assets of another firm into its books at their original cost rather than their present value. Many conglomerates have later sold off a portion of such assets at a high price and reported the difference between that and the original cost as a fat profit. To discourage this practice, the rule-makers not only prohibited the use of pooling if merger plans call for disposing of acquired assets within two years, but decided to require special disclosure if assets are in fact sold...
...tell you the location because both are closed: the Red Caboose is gone forever, leaving only an empty place in my heart. It went broke because it was on jinx corner (Winthrop St. and Mass Ave.). The Waldorf is closed temporarily "to open again with a more modern restaurant." Fat chance...