Word: fatten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voice. "I'd rather suffer a little more than see this damn government prosper anymore," she whispers. "They have everything -- generators, cars, gas, the food they want -- and we have nothing. They talk about Fatherland or Death, Socialism or Death. Bullshit. I'm not going to die while they fatten themselves...
...Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Brighton) and U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54-'56 (D-Mass), the jackpot seems to lie in Las Vegas and Puerto Rico, where cocktail parties and hotel-hopping this year have helped to fatten their campaign piggy-banks...
Bosnian officials had lobbied for a resolution that would spell out tougher action and lift the arms embargo on their country. By focusing solely on the delivery of humanitarian aid and making no reference to Serbian aggression, said Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey, the measure will only "fatten up Bosnians before the slaughter...
...candidates at all. At this point in the run-up to the 1988 voting, a bomb blast in Des Moines' Savery Hotel would have wiped out much of the Democratic field of candidates and most of the political press corps. Now Iowans just sit and watch the hogs fatten...
...resignation of C. Jackson Ritchie, the company's chief executive, and the layoff of nearly 100 of the bank's 6,000 employees. Regulators were worried that First American's secret parent, itself in financial trouble, would start siphoning off funds that would deepen the loss and conceivably fatten the bill to U.S. taxpayers should First American have to be bailed out. To guard against that, the Federal Reserve Board last week ordered First American not to transfer any funds, including management fees, to B.C.C.I., or to exchange any assets with it. Says an investigator involved in the bank probe...