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Arden and Jo meet each other for lunch twice a week Arden works as a real estate agent Jo is a bank executive. They have been friends for years and eat at their favorite fancy restaurant down town. Oftentimes Arden brings a prospective buyer with him. Sometimes Jo brings a major depositor of her expensive dish--shrimp or lobster Rockefeller when in season; Jo, the filet mignon Jo likes the $3.95 cheesecake for dessert and usually orders it saying "I'll log it off on the way home." Because Arden rents a new Mercedes Renz cash year to drive buses...
Their lunch, with the usual guests, ordinarily costs $100, including tip Who pays for this lunch? Once a week Arden says. "I'll get the bill." Once a week Jo says, "I'll pick up the tab, it's on me." But who actually pays for their lunch? Arden's real estate firm? Jo's bank? The prospective buyer or hefty depositor...
...Jo and Arden greet each other with smiles, order lunch from the clean, bright mean, chat about high interest rates on mortgages, blame the federal deficit and government spending in the red talk about the last and upcoming weekend, eat, and depart with a pleasant handshake saying "thank...
...recipient because it increases not only the recipient's life style but also income. This reported income taxed, could help the President balance the budget. That could hold down government borrowing to make up for the deficit, which could lower the interest rate to taken down each time Jo buys Arden's lunch Even if it causes some additional paperwork, any cost benefit analysis would support such a reasonable tax policy...
...Heart") is a parade of idiosyncratic young men and irate foreign neighbors, and the ups and downs of a love affair with a smooth young Irishman named Lugs (Terrance O'Quinn), whom Fran eventually marries. Continuity is a hard-boiled, comical best friend. "The trauma of growing up" is Jo-Jo, but the intervening years thus stylized, far from framing the slow growth of a conflict, become a string of unrelated heartaches. Fran occasionally mentions Jo-Jo's name, but between Act II's kiss and Act V's final reconciliation, Alfred seems almost to forget about...