Word: fats
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...always been particularly zealous in enforcing this proviso, so Murdoch presumably expected the Government to continue to bend the rules in his favor. But the liberal Kennedy (often referred to in Murdoch's Boston Herald as "the Fat Boy") sneaked a clause requiring Murdoch to sell either station or paper into a long congressional appropriations bill. President Reagan seems to have skipped reading the clause when signing the bill into law. In Boston Murdoch chose to sell the station and keep the paper, where he can continue to taunt Teddy. But in New York City he needs the station...
...calorie, cholesterol- free, natural fat substitute is unveiled, heralding a new era of phony foods -- and guilt- free gluttony...
...told the players to throw everything atthem, except the kitchen sink," Barnaby added,"then pick that up and throw it at them. I was areal fat cat after we won the match...
East European performers fume over the sluggish official talent agencies, which routinely do little more than collect the state's fat share of hard- currency earnings. Says Jana Jonasova, 44, a soprano at Prague's National Theater who has lost up to 70% of her fee for West European engagements to the Czechoslovak Pragokoncert agency: "I have to pay a Western agent another 20% to do the work. If I didn't organize things myself, I would never appear outside Prague...
What no one realized was that, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the financial statements, the fat profits and the entire enterprise were part of an elaborate fiction. Instead of buying stocks for his customers, the SEC charged last week, Bloom used the $10 million to support a lavish life-style. He bought about $5 million worth of paintings, an $830,000 Manhattan condominium and a $2 million vacation house in posh East Hampton, Long Island. Bloom, who also owned a Mercedes-Benz and an Aston Martin convertible, went skiing in St. Moritz, paid...