Word: fatted
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Reed gets that kind of respect because he can deliver. With a fat war chest and so many activists on call at all times, the Coalition can stir a flurry of telephone calls and letters to lawmakers on almost any subject within a matter of hours. To train its operatives, the Coalition runs leadership schools, instructing supporters to form rapid-response networks, connected by phone, fax and modem, in hundreds of counties, located in every state in the Union. They update their information on the third Tuesday of every month by attending satellite downlinks of "Christian Coalition Live," an hour...
...police were macho street theater run amuck. And their thug posture, as later adopted by drug gangs and rap artists, further isolated the black male from the American mainstream. In the film, though, iconography tells the story. The Panthers are young and handsome; virtually all whites are old and fat, decadent crypt keepers of a corrupt culture...
Most American writers would applaud a talented colleague's fat advances, if only out of self-interest: big, highly publicized deals raise the negotiating floor for everyone. But Amis' grab offended the sensibilities of some of his English literary colleagues. One was novelist Julian Barnes, who had a good reason: he's the husband of Kavanagh, Amis' former agent. Another was A.S. Byatt, whose novel Possession was published by Jonathan Cape, who also brought out Amis' previous novels. "I don't see why I should subsidize his greed," said Byatt, "simply because he has a divorce...
...Street's battalion of educated guessers, the analysts, is that the Dow's earnings will rise to $390 in 1996. This is a rather stunning jump over the current level, so this prediction has taken a lot of people by surprise. Apparently, all this corporate slimming down, cutting the fat, getting back to basics and restructuring is paying off. Companies that make it into the Dow have reached middle age and can no longer grow as fast as they once did, so instead of wasting money in a futile attempt to live in the fast lane, they've figured...
Whether it's the Rockettes or the other Broadway and off-Broadway shows that Vegas imports (Guys and Dolls, Starlight Express, Forever Plaid, Beehive), the target audience is the middle-aged tourist with a fat wallet in need of slimming. And Vegas has hit the bull's-eye. In 1994 the flood of tourists swelled 20%, to 28.2 million visits, and entertainment revenues soared almost 16%, to $230 million...