Word: lloyds
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...Bacon interviewed Lloyd Bentsen 2 Bentsen is a descendant of Henry Wilson 3 Wilson was Vice President to Ulysses S. Grant 4 Grant was head of the Union Army during the Civil War 1 Bacon hired Monica Lewinsky as an aide 2 Lewinsky grew up in Beverly Hills with Tori Spelling 3 Spelling appeared with Neve Campbell in Scream 2 4 Campbell was in Wild Things with Kevin Bacon 1 Bacon covered Jimmy Carter's Defense Department 2 Carter was advised by Clark Clifford 3 Clifford was an adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt 4 F.D.R. was a cousin of Teddy...
...This has been my work for the past decade," said Mayer, describing his work on All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery, a biography published last fall by St. Martin's Press...
...first brush with fame came soon after the war, when he was selected to be a delegate to the Paris Peace Conference of 1918-19. The young Keynes held his tongue as Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau imposed vindictive war reparations on Germany. But he let out a roar when he returned to England, immediately writing a short book, The Economic Consequences of the Peace...
...Germans, he wrote acerbically, could not possibly pay what the victors were demanding. Calling Wilson a "blind, deaf Don Quixote" and Clemenceau a xenophobe with "one illusion--France, and one disillusion--mankind" (and only at the last moment scratching the purple prose he had reserved for Lloyd George: "this goat-footed bard, this half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity"), an outraged Keynes prophesied that the reparations would keep Germany impoverished and ultimately threaten all Europe...
...fail to pay child support, he and Parke write, "But while the image of uncaring, selfish, abandoning men dominate[s] the media, one question remains unexplored: Have these men really run away from their families or are they being chased away?" The two describe the plight of Lloyd R., a divorced father of two who fell behind in support payments when he broke his leg and was forced onto workers' comp. When Lloyd got back on his feet, his wages were garnisheed and his tax refund was seized. Villain or victim...