Word: harrisons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Charlie Harrison Newcastle upon Tyne, England...
...should it do with the endless trunkloads of dollars it exchanges for limitless barrels of oil? After all, the Kingdom feels the pinch of inflation too: every time it raises the price of crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur of paintings, wine, well-bound books and unfettered women. Petrodollars, he reasons coldly, can rig almost anything, including the stock market. His plan is simple. Surreptitiously insert billions of those dollars into the U.S. stock market and then cut the price...
Novelist Thomas, 44, a former staff member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and now a private business consultant, delivers a heady blend of financial expertise, jet-set elegance, cultural sophistication, romance, intrigue, karate chops and plastic explosives. Harrison himself is a rare combination: part Bernard Baruch, part Scaramouche...
...there's no reason to know how everything fits into Lucas's cosmic scheme when you see The Empire Strikes Back. What's important to remember is that when we last saw Luke, Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Chewbacca (Peter Mayhew), C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and R2-D2 (Kenny Baker), they were celebrating their destruction of the Empire's ominous Death Star, oblivious to the escape of arch-nogoodnik Darth Vader (David Prowse...
Thompson and Murphy denied guilt, but under House Democratic caucus rules, both resigned their committee chairmanships pending the outcome of their trials. As part of the Abscam investigations, the federal grand jury in Brooklyn is now hearing evidence against New Jersey Democratic Senator Harrison Williams. The Brilab operation, targeted against racketeering in the South and Southwest, led to the indictment of quite a different kind of figure. Long the reputed godfather of organized crime along the Gulf Coast, Carlos Marcello, 70, is suspected of running an empire whose illegal gambling operations alone reportedly grossed more than $500 million annually...