Word: hides
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NOWHERE TO HIDE Putting your assets in a trust in banking-friendly nations such as the Cayman Islands is becoming popular. And it can protect assets if you get sued. But foreign trusts do not excuse you from paying taxes. Yet that's exactly the kind of tip you'll get from thousands of websites offering "expert" advice on moving your money offshore. If the site recommends a "pure" or "constitutional" trust, steer clear. Read about this and other traps and scams at www.assetprotectioncorp.com...
...Still, several times in private he dashed to a secure phone line to get the latest, increasingly optimistic assessments from his national security adviser, Leon Fuerth. As Oliver North told his conservative radio listeners last week, the combat "may be ending just in time to save Al Gore's hide...
SPLITTING HAIRS Helmets tend to hide the hairstyles of professional athletes: football, baseball and hockey players all conceal their scalps from view. Not so basketball players, whose domes can rival their dunks for attention. Often an era's defining player sets the style du sport for his courtmates--and countless armchair-athlete imitators...
...Massa." In 1980, when the University of Maryland Law School dedicated its new library to him, Marshall wouldn't attend the ceremony. The school was just "trying to salve its conscience for excluding the Negroes," he said. As the court grew colder to civil rights, he did little to hide his bitterness. In one of his last opinions before his retirement in 1991, Marshall complained that "power not reason is the new currency of this court's decision making." He died...
...part of the FCC?s plan is to provide an automated message telling the caller that he/she is calling a cell phone, and that the carrier is about to take the extra money -- besides the dime or so it costs to use a land line -- out of his/her hide. The FCC?s changes, due early in 2000, won?t be irrevocable; the option of caller-only billing would be up to carriers, and therefore up to consumers. But the agency is betting that making the cell phone a little more familiar to traditionalists will increase use and competition, driving down...