Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...near-death experience? Why can't he offend the power players? He doesn't need them anymore--unless he's planning to build a really, really big presidential library. He should be going after the producers of drivel, the teachers unions who protect the status quo, the fat cats to whom he apologized for raising taxes. Instead, how about criticizing them for their wretched excess--$1,000 bottles of wine, $250 cigars, Versailles-like mansions? Or reversing the appalling gap between their income and those who haven't got on the Clinton gravy train...
...Budget Surplus. Tax cuts, pork, Social Security reform--after years on a fiscal diet, watch Congress try to divide the spoils of these fat years as it hungrily eyes the unexpected revenue filling the government's coffers...
DIED. MAURICE STANS, 90, the power behind Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election purse, who bagged the record $61 million in donations that would later help fund Watergate's dirty tricks; in Pasadena, Calif. An accountant by training and Nixon's Commerce Secretary, Stans had a knack for getting fat cats to show him the money, but he maintained that he was not behind its scandalous use. He eventually pleaded guilty to five campaign-finance violations, but the disgrace never eclipsed his fund-raising powers or his loyalty: he raised $30 million for the Nixon library...
...involved? You could buy the perceived targets, hoping for a takeover at a fat premium. But if no deal surfaces, you're sunk. Besides, the latest deals have been "mergers of equals," which allow two banks of similar size to hook up without one paying a big premium for the other. Shareholders still get a (more modest) pop, but in both stocks, not just the target's. So you can do well owning the buying bank--say, a NationsBank, First Union or Chase Manhattan. In many cases, that will be the better long-term investment anyway. But I'd also...
...store itself is long and narrow, with ablack & white tiled floor, dark green and redwalls, a black painted ceiling, and gilt moldings.To the left is a long cigar display containinghundreds of fat stogies, a smoker's hall of fame.On the right is a long counter dis-B-14Gregory L. Hart '01"MY GIRLFRIEND SMOKED AND I COULDN'T STAND THESMELL. I STARTED SO THAT WE WOULD BOTH SMELL...