Word: jacuzzi
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...hostile takeover bid by South African-controlled Minorco. Not until the meal was over did ConsGold Chairman Rudolph Agnew inform his troops that the company's board had accepted a $5.5 billion takeover bid from Hanson PLC, the $12.5 billion British group whose holdings include Jacuzzi and Farberware...
...Chicago suburb of Northbrook. In his first-floor "entertainment center" he can choose among 80-plus buttons on three remote controls and switch from the Bang & Olufsen stereo system to the large- screen TV set, to the VCR or CD player, and back again. The basement offers a Jacuzzi, poker table, small black pool table and six-hole putting green...
...incident became an instant cause celebre. Critics dubbed the columnist "the Jacuzzi Gunman" and "Rambo Rowan," while black leaders criticized authorities for dropping charges against the white intruders. No charges have been brought against Rowan, and the case against the youths is still under investigation. In his first column after the episode, Rowan stuck to his guns: "Let my political enemies crow. But let them know that as long as authorities leave this society awash in drugs and guns, I will protect my family...
...long-time Rowan haters, such as spokesmen for the National Rifle Association and right-wing zealot Patrick Buchanan, could not help but join the bandwagon, gloating at this apparent example of "elitist, liberal hypocrisy," and label Rowan "the Jacuzzi Bandit." They and others charged that Rowan has become the 1980s equivalent of the infamous "limousine liberals" of the 1970s, who while advocating busing as a means to integrate the public schools, quietly slipped their children off to Andover and Exeter...
...class of upwardly mobile black professionals and entrepreneurs known, like their American counterparts, as "buppies." Inside exclusive enclaves with up- market names like Siluma View and Beverly Hills, the new black elite is enjoying amenities once reserved for whites only: "his" and "hers" Mercedes, live-in black servants, Jacuzzi baths...