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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heft amplify his forceful nature. At the same time, he is a gregarious socialite who counts among his close friends Gregory Peck, Don Rickles, Henry Kissinger and former President Gerald Ford. Like many pals, Ford has invested in Davis' oil deals over the years. Says Ford: "You look at Marvin, and he looks like a tough, mean guy -- and he is a tough businessman. But on a personal side, he's a warm person, a nice guy to be with...
...Incredible, isn't it? A woman went to visit her cousin in Cincinnati and she said, "Look, you're hanging the toilet paper wrong." Louise replied, "What do you mean?" The cousin said, "You're hanging it so it goes over the top. You're supposed to hang it so that the toilet paper goes down along the wall." I figured this is a subject everybody can relate to, and it was -- well -- different. And I wondered, "How many people really care?" Then I thought, "I care, and I bet thousands of others do too." So I printed...
...crime, as Joey sees it, is the way some banks try to trick their customers. "Look at this!" he'll occasionally shout at me over the phone, as if I could see the checks he's waving. "They look just like regular checks! They've got my name and address preprinted on them, and my account number in magnetic ink at the bottom...
...serve is palpable. "They wouldn't have asked me in if they didn't think I'd be useful," he says, the hope almost audible in his voice. But the novelist can also sound like Ryan when he declares, "Somebody in my position has the unique ability to look an official in the eye and say, 'What you just said is garbage.' " But the Bush team has other ideas. "What we had in mind," says an Administration insider, "is tapping his expertise in creating public enthusiasm for the space program...
...even as investors take comfort in sound fundamentals, they look with alarm at the return of the greedy speculation and electronic sorcery that are blamed for the crash. The market has reacted with near hysteria to the possibility of takeovers, first in the communications industry in response to the Time-Warner deal and now in the airline business in the wake of bids for the companies that own Northwest and United Airlines. The takeover-stock mania has coincided with the return of program trading, a system in which brokerage houses use computers to buy and sell giant blocks of stock...