Word: investments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politicians invest? A look at Senate financial-disclosure reports reveals a penchant for blue-chip stocks. (AT&T, held by eight Senators, is the favorite.) At right, sample senatorial portfolios. Senators...
...lodging business is one of those industries that can't stand prosperity. It wasn't long ago that lodging was an absolute dog, the ugly consequence of silly tax laws and even sillier real estate investors. Prior to 1986, anyone could invest in a hotel and recover up to $3 of write-offs for every $1 invested. From 1983 to 1985, the industry added more than 140,000 new rooms annually--but far fewer customers...
...Murphy, happily, is something Lewis never was: a comic actor of astonishing range. He is able to invest his Professor Klump with an endearing dignity, give his lounge lizard alter ego, Buddy Love, an alligator's bite and then go on from there to play Klump's grandma. Also his mother, father and brother...
With a chart for illustration, Malone showed how he has reduced the Treasury's spending by 53 percent since his election just eight years ago. At the same time, he said, the Treasury has added programs to encourage banks to invest in their local communities, to help home buyers secure loans and to help families save for college...
...International Airport, he is loudly assaulted by the city's pride in itself: "Awakens as a world leader," says one postcard, among the "American-Made Collectors' Souvenirs and Spoons" in an airport gift shop, and another calls it ''a competitor's paradise." Terminal videos instruct you on how to invest money here, and a large ad reminds you that the born-again town was voted the top American city for "global companies" in 1994 by one magazine and the best city for small businesses by another. Atlanta ("A Star on the Rise," as the logo on its Olympic...