Word: milken
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...rules and anything else they can think of - into a prevailing wind on everything from energy policy to tax cuts and the economy. All they've got to do is turn a few stomachs with some of the most ready-made class-war villains to come around since Michael Milken and Ivan Boesky. And the longer it goes on, the better...
...something to hide. Democrats in Congress, frustrated by Bush's soaring popularity and their own inability to move pet legislation through Congress, smelled a chance to link Bush and his party to the richest tale of greed, self-dealing and political access since junk-bond king Michael Milken was jailed in 1991. That's just what the President, hoping to convert momentum from his war on terrorism to the war on recession, desperately wants to avoid. The fallout will swing on the following key questions...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz has spent much of his career in the spotlight defending some of the most controversial and famous figures of a generation, including O.J. Simpson, accused murderer Claus von Bulow, junk-bond king Michael Milken, and John Lennon...
...study is practicing healthy yoga; what is the control group to practice?bad yoga? Finally, the traditional funders of studies, the pharmaceutical giants, see no financial payoff in validating yoga: no patentable therapies, no pills. (Ornish's prostate-cancer study was funded by private organizations, including the Michael Milken Foundation...
...shocked we are, and now the Street is being strapped down for another public flogging. It happens after every period of excess, and little good comes from it. In the merger-crazed '80s, Boesky and junk-bond king Milken served time for their roles in insider trading scandals. Yet insider trading thrives. Stocks still jump a day or two ahead of major corporate announcements...