Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...firm expanded furiously, sometimes taking into the organization successful regional companies that did not fit well. Executives of some of the acquired firms may have seen Maxey coming. Genesco's standard takeover agreement allowed the sellers to keep the ownership of the buildings that they occupied and offered fat stock bonuses to men who could produce profit increases for Genesco in the first three years after acquisition. Some managers simply rewrote their building leases, temporarily cutting rents in order to raise earnings. Now that the three-year periods are lapsing, the rents are rising again-and Genesco is saddled...
Francis has a positive genius for inhabiting the psyche of existential outsiders with small chips on their shoulders and a large resolve never to give in. Most British jockeys are small and underpaid in a flossy, fat social sport where the term "gentleman jockey" had to be coined to designate the rare exception. When that is not enough motivation, Francis throws in a physical handicap, or a grudge against a Victorian parent...
...incorporate unorganized industrial workers. The phenomenon of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or Wobblies, in the early 1900's had already indicated that the AFL was incapable of expanding beyond it own craft orientation. Today, history has repeated itself in the AFL-CIO's fat complacency...
...high-handed and tasteless description of actor Bill Fuller as "short, fat, and funny-looking" (Crimson, May 8), Richard Bowker omits one crucial fact: Fuller also holds a black belt in karate. Andrew J. Heyward...
Gallo was sighted at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan's Little Italy on April 7 by a small-time racketeer who quickly spread the word. Most interested was Carmine ("Sonny Pinto") DeBiase, a soldier in the Mafia clan once headed by the late Vito Genovese. He recruited Phil ("Fat Fungi") Gambino, a distant relative of Carlo's, and two Brooklyn mobsters identified so far only as brothers...