Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whirling dervish whose hyperkinetic activity seems designed to distract and confuse. In seconds, he can switch from a jaunty Brit to a ruthless schoolyard bully and back again. He is said to be worth $1.4 billion. Yet despite the colossal Mont Blanc gold pen he wields | like a fat cigar, the enormously expensive Lord & Stewart suit, the butter- soft cashmere overcoat, the private jet, the helicopter, the yacht with a crew of 14, the personal chef, the Rolls-Royces, the thing Maxwell really values most is time. Whether dealing with family, managers or minions, Maxwell is constantly ordering, pushing, scolding...
Influence peddling was to have been curbed by the series of campaign laws that Congress passed in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Designed to keep fat cats at bay, the legislation permits individual donors to give a maximum of $1,000 to any one candidate and gifts to multiple candidates in federal races that can total no more than $25,000 a year. Companies are not allowed to contribute directly to campaigns, but they, along with labor unions and other organizations, can set up political-action committees that solicit donations from employees or members and give...
BUSINESS: Corporate fat cats stage a comeback...
Burning grease in a deep fat fryer set off a one-alarm fire at Leo's Place early Friday morning, causing $100,000 in damage, fire officials said yesterday...
...market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four fat reference books -- a dictionary, a thesaurus, a book of quotations and the complete works of Shakespeare. Yet it still has enough free space to store 100 copies of Moby Dick...