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...they saw apples and melons still neatly stacked in the produce department. Dan Wachoub was barbecuing in his backyard when he saw what appeared to be black smoke behind his home. He went inside and called the fire department. While he was finishing cooking his chicken and sausage, a fireman came by to tell him that a tornado had taken a big chunk out of his neighbor's home...
...cited the change in popular lingo, from fireman to fire fighter, and from policeman to officer as advances...
...been pure lead for years. I don't know if CalPERS owns those awful stocks. The point is that real losers are out there. Dumping on Reebok is like saying you don't want Shaq on your team because he isn't Michael Jordan. Reebok founder and CEO Paul Fireman, a fierce competitor, chickened out of publicly responding to CalPERS. That, I think, is a measure of how powerful money managers have become and why CalPERS needs to be more careful about whom it puts on the list. It has become closely watched and uniformly accepted as investment gospel...
...recent weeks a former high-ranking Dole moneyman received the largest penalty ever connected to an illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including...
...scheme worked this way: current law limits individual political contributions in federal races to $1,000. Fireman got around the rules by persuading employees to write checks for the individual maximum, then reimbursing them from a front company he established for that purpose in Hong Kong. Last spring when the Kansas City Star began investigating the scheme, Dole claimed to know nothing of it. "In this business, you don't know who's giving you money," he said...