Word: heir
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...verbal comic, Allen was the fastest gun in the business, and a true heir to Groucho Marx for his inventiveness with language, constantly pirouetting around the tired cliché or the pretentious phrase. Yet he had an infallible internal censor that kept his wisecracks from ever being cheap, or risqué, or mean. He kept a police whistle at his desk, which he'd blow whenever a line or bit of business crossed the line. He remained old-fashioned that way, as well as in his stubborn refusal, unlike Carson and almost everyone that followed, to do "savers" when...
...will be turnout that wins this thing, from the popular vote to the electoral-college battlegrounds where the election is constitutionally won. Turnout in Philadelphia, and Detroit, and Flint. Turnout in Florida, and Florida, and Florida. (For the other Clinton heir, turnout in New York City, which is why Bill Clinton left a message on my answering machine today. I didn't pick up - figured he had a lot of other calls to make...
...unprecedented. After all, the sales tax is also a second tax on your income, and it affects far more Americans than the estate tax does. In fact, the sales tax is a much more egregious case of double taxation, since the estate tax falls on a second person--the heir...
Three weeks ago, Xerox issued its fourth profit warning in little over a year, telling already wary investors that sagging sales and high costs would cause its first quarterly loss in a decade and a half. Allaire and president and COO Anne Mulcahy, his recently anointed heir apparent, who were unavailable for comment last week, candidly admitted to analysts that the company has an "unsustainable business model...
...story hangs on the testimony of an interested party. But according to Father Gabriele Amorth, exorcist for the Diocese of Rome, the heir to the throne of St. Peter recently spent half an hour struggling--literally--with a demon from hell. Pope John Paul II was conducting his regular Wednesday audience on Sept. 6 when there was reportedly a disturbance in the front row. A 19-year-old woman began screaming insults in what Italian newspapers called "a cavernous voice." Struggling with guards, she displayed "a superhuman strength." The frail Pontiff did not hesitate. After the apparent demoniac was hurried...