Word: jeb
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Neil's brother Jeb teamed up with a business partner to buy a Miami office building in 1985, using $4.5 million from a Fort Lauderdale investor who had borrowed it from a Florida S&L. When that investor defaulted on the loan and the S&L became insolvent, the Federal Government bailed it out and in effect forgave part of the loan. That the Federal Government in the end collected only $505,000 of the $4.5 million from the Bush partnership only furthered the sense that Bush's children enjoy special advantages that others do not -- and then get bailed...
...Bush can be blamed for any of this, it is only for reluctance to provide advice to his children when they ask for it -- a habit that exasperates them to this day. Otherwise, Neil and Jeb were merely following the example of their father who, during his now romanticized "wildcatting" years in West Texas, lent a well-known name to unknown men with big ideas and bigger money. None of this is particularly relevant to Bush's conduct as President or to the 1992 campaign, since voters are unlikely to visit the sins of the sons upon the father...
Those links were dramatically evident during Martinez's losing bid for re- election against former Senator Lawton Chiles. The G.O.P. campaign was headed by the President's son, Jeb Bush, a Miami real estate executive who once served Martinez as the state's secretary of commerce. The President himself visited Florida several times to stump for Martinez. First Lady Barbara even made campaign commercials...
...about boots. There are many elegant close-ups of them as their bad-dude owners go menacingly about their wicked ways. These are the only shots that have any passion invested in them. The rest of the film is all awkward maneuver, without wit or feeling. Screenwriters John Fasano, Jeb Stuart and Larry Gross labor to arrange a plausible reason to reunite Murphy's smooth crook, Reggie Hammond, with rough cop Jack Cates (Nick Nolte) and place them in the kind of violent situations and give them the kind of rude comic exchanges that made the original...