Word: kingdom
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...peaked well before 9 in the morning. But he was probably thinking of those pigeons. The English are known for having almost unlimited sympathy for animals that are unromantic or even animals that Americans might describe as having been hit upside the head with an ugly stick. The United Kingdom is a country in which the monarch harbors corgis...
...Kingdom of God is color-blind," Larson said. "It doesn't matter what country you're from, how much you make, how much education you have...
...managerial and entrepreneurial arts may turn these into far more valuable assets. Wall Street apparently thinks so; it bid up Silver King's stock from $25 to $39 the day Diller's purchase was announced (the stock closed last week at $301/2). Still and all, this is not the kingdom people expected Diller would survey when he walked out on his job as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's 20th Century Fox in 1992 and told the world he yearned to own a network of his own. His assumed ambition was to be a Murdoch, or even a Laurence Tisch...
...more, sometimes much more. For boosting the Magic Kingdom's stock price 28% and orchestrating a $19 billion merger (the second largest in U.S. history) with Capital Cities/ABC, Walt Disney CEO Michael Eisner took home a $14.8 million compensation package, outpacing his prior year's pay nearly 40%. Campbell Soup chairman David Johnson savored a raise to $6.6 million, a jump of 150%, as Campbell stock climbed more than 36%, to 60. After Rockwell International's stock price leaped nearly 50%, to 527/8, CEO Donald Beall pocketed a tidy $5.5 million, a 45% bump over '94. Charles Walgreen...
...wiggly trend lines, the downward curve is not to be found everywhere. Minneapolis, Minnesota, for instance, is still puzzling over why in 1995 homicides climbed more than 56% over the preceding year. Even with the downward trend, crime rates remain bloodcurdlingly high, especially when compared to the relatively peaceable kingdom of, say, 1965. (Murder victims per 100,000 then: 5.1. In 1994: 9.) And there are widespread predictions that another tidal wave will break as soon as the milk-toothed children of the '90s crowd into their saw-toothed teens. Whoever called economics the dismal science must not have heard...