Word: gifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle-class Rancho Bernardo, Calif., a San Diego suburb. At the elite Bishop's School in La Jolla, he was popular and a little outrageous. Openly gay as a teenager, he once showed up at a school function in a red patent-leather jumpsuit that he said was a gift from his much older date...
...Gavin de Becker, who has protected the likes of John Travolta and Cher, prefers not to discuss the security of public figures. He'd rather focus on his new book, The Gift of Fear, whose premise is the idea that his methods are not just for the wealthy and powerful but are equally applicable to the general public. The general public has responded by putting his book on the best-seller list...
Northeastern's Levin predicts that "the security industry is a growth industry into the next millennium," and that sector's huge current profitability supports the prophecy. Ads for De Becker's latest book also trumpet "Gift of Fear Seminars," and although some may find his approach too theoretical or mistake his emphasis on prevention for blaming the victim, he will probably make a lot of money and save a few lives...
...Riady family, which owns Lippo, contributed $480,000 to Democrats, most of it scattered quietly to state parties. The same year, Lippo provided an additional $50,000 to the national party. The money was sent in by a U.S. subsidiary controlled by Huang and identified as a political gift in his expense report to Lippo headquarters in Jakarta. That payment drew the first unequivocal link between a Democratic Party contribution and a foreign source...
...When a future King is throwing it, publicly, for his mistress. The British press was all atwitter about the implications of the fancy 50th birthday knees-up that CHARLES threw for CAMILLA PARKER BOWLES at his Highgrove estate. Camilla turned up early in a dazzling diamond necklace, possibly a gift from Charles, to greet guests--including her ex-husband. The bash was held in a 120-ft.-long marquee in Highgrove's meticulously tended gardens. Everyone was happy except perhaps the local vicar, who pointed out to the BBC a few days before the festivities that Charles as King would...