Word: ind
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...eyes don't seem like they're telling the truth," Cassidy Berlin, 12, a sixth-grader from West Lafayette, Ind., observes of the President. "I was doing my spelling homework in front of the TV. It took me an hour to get it done instead of the usual 15 minutes." But of course. Bill and Monica have added a few words to the vocabulary list...
Even a moderate like Jordan was a target. In 1980 a white supremacist took aim with a .30-06 rifle and shot him in the back in a motel parking lot in Fort Wayne, Ind. The crime was committed at 2 a.m. as Jordan, who had delivered a speech on race relations earlier that night, was arriving back at his motel with a blond divorce who had been entertaining him at her home. It was explained that Jordan and the woman had been up late discussing racial issues...
...this so-called new era for investing, perfectly healthy electric utility companies--the widows-and-orphans stocks long known for generous dividend policies--have been slashing their payout rates without a trace of remorse. "It's worked out splendidly," says John Hodowal, chairman of Ipalco Enterprises, based in Indianapolis, Ind., who last year short-circuited the dividend by 32% and immediately bought back 22% of outstanding shares. What's so splendid? Last year Ipalco shares, including dividends, returned 58%--double the Dow and triple the average utility. A Florida power company, FPL Group, was the first healthy utility to take...
...until just before the Christmas break that Henry Fassbender, shaper of ninth-grade minds at P.S. 117 in Huntington, Ind., finally found a moment to inspect the Amistad learning kit for himself. It had been sent to the school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning...
When he started looking for international opportunities eight years ago, Barden had had a long career in the U.S. His holding company, Barden Companies, is involved in riverboat gambling (aboard a vessel operating out of Gary, Ind.) and owns radio stations in Illinois, a computer-assisted learning company in Tucson, Ariz., and a construction company building housing projects in Detroit. Last year these businesses racked up sales of $93 million. But Barden had no foreign contacts...