Word: lode
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...Mother Lode...
...fire the accountant just yet, though. There are two big changes that do affect your '97 return, and together they are the mother lode for those who have sold a home or hitched their finances to the bull market in stocks and stock mutual funds. Home sales will be treated vastly differently going forward. But if you sold last year, you may be able to apply either the old or the new law--a one-time-only chance to have the best of both worlds. The capital-gains tax rate on stocks has been cut, potentially saving you a bundle...
...been nine months since Clinton played federal marshal in the Great Yellowstone Mine Shootout. The dispute began in the late 1980s as new techniques for locating pay dirt suddenly turned old claims on Henderson into a $1 billion lode of extractable ore. The glitch was that the peak is a scant 2.5 miles upstream from Yellowstone National Park. Environmental groups, warning that a megamine would poison the park's ecosystem, threatened massive lawsuits against Crown Butte, the company planning a round-the-clock extraction effort. Then the Administration stepped in, and after months of secret talks, Crown Butte agreed...
...share the shock and dismay of our shareholders and others that the gold we thought we had at Busang now appears not to be there." That was the Captain Renault-esque reaction of Bre-X head David Walsh to an independent report calling the once highly-touted Busang, Indonesia lode the biggest scam in the history of mining. In its report released Sunday, Strathcona Mineral Services said that gold from outside sources had been added to the crushed rock core samples that Bre-X had gathered as evidence of the supposed 200 million ounces of gold at Busang. Trading...
...find a mother lode of gold in the pool, enough to satisfy even the most jingoistic sports fan. But the medal-count table has about as much soul as the meter on a cab, the rate on the back of a hotel-room door, the total on a cash register--numbers that dominated conversations in Atlanta. When the women of the U.S. gymnastics team did something none of their predecessors had ever done, their collective effort, and the spirit of Kerri Strug, transcended metallurgy. They went higher...