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...relatively small, family-owned, money-earning companies and then rapidly increase their profits by hiring new managers, paring payrolls and investing in modern machines and plants. His record of successes has brought him into the clubby inner circle of Houston's top businessmen and bankers, who lend him money to make deals. Speaking of his own wealth, Mize says, with some understatement: "I'm not big rich, but I'm damned comfortable...
...Berlin of the '20s. In fact, Munich lacks the intellectual electricity of those brilliant Berlin days. It is also much too innocent. Still, it is the place where most Germans prefer to live, and candid Münchner concede that it is the "other" Germans who »JJJ lend the city much of its style. Only one out of three Münchner is Bavarian-born, while about 15% of the city's population is non-German. It is this cultural blend that finally gives the city its lustig if somewhat spurious cosmopolitanism, an odd chemistry...
...conservative," he says. "Every year, no matter what my income was, I've saved a little and invested a little." Using the same rule, he is putting 25% of the campaign contributions into a trust fund that later will be used to make repayments to people who merely lend money to the campaign. Whether he can keep on feeding the trust fund...
...price abortions are available, but the concomitant red-tape and the reputedly shoddy manner with which the operations are performed lend yet another topic for the well-developed sense of Soviet chorny (black) humor...
California Lawyer Bill McKay (Robert Redford) is for clean air, clean water, clean beaches and clean politics. When Lucas, the state's Democratic kingmaker, discovers him, McKay is in his blue denim shirtsleeves down among the poor, trying to lend a helping hand with some everyday legal wrangles. Lucas (Peter Boyle) watches him in action for a while, then makes his move: Would McKay like to run for the U.S. Senate...