Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan." Jones' lawyers contend that her case is not about dollars--she has said she would give any damages money left after she paid her attorneys to charity--but reputation. "It's had an emotional toll on her that people are calling her a bimbo, trailer-park trash, a gold digger," says Jones' lawyer, Joseph Cammarata, who argues she should not have to wait until 2001 to begin clearing her name. He also contends that the burden on Clinton of proceeding with the lawsuit has been overstated. "This President goes on vacation, he plays golf in Hawaii and Australia...
SILICON VALLEY GOLD...
...countless other engineers--many let go by the defense industry--the fabled Valley has become a pot of gold. Software companies alone are adding 50,000 jobs a year at salaries that set a nation-high average of about $70,000. A torrid area: computer artists and animators for Hollywood films along the lines of Twister and Toy Story; they can easily earn $80,000 or more a year. Also topping the most-wanted lists are programmers skilled in cutting-edge languages like Java, who can command $70,000 a year to start...
...ethereal "ice princess" by TIME's Susanna Schrobsdorff, Oksana Baiul is attempting to set her crown straight after skidding her green Mercedes off the highway and into some Connecticut shrubbery Sunday morning. An unknown Ukrainian orphan who first emerged as an international sports celebrity after cinching an Olympic gold in 1994 at the age of 16, Oksana had slipped to the sidelines of world competition, plagued by back and knee injuries, weight gain and the distractions of stardom. On Tuesday, police charged Baiul, 19, who now lives in Connecticut, with drinking and reckless driving in the accident over the weekend...
...same time, non-American firms like Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland and Britain's NatWest are trying to muscle in on the gold mine by hiring away some of the hottest prospectors. Deutsche Bank lured investment banker Frank Quattrone from Morgan Stanley, apparently by offering the kind of deal that made it easy for him to walk away from a reported $10 million job at his old firm. Goldman Sachs is attempting to stave off poaching by creating a new rung on the corporate ladder: junior partners, who will share some of the riches traditionally reserved for full partners...