Word: milken
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...swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million--not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody was as lucky as Rich; junk-bond king Michael Milken, who was opposed by the SEC, and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who has no fans in the intelligence community, were denied pardons...
...MICHAEL MILKEN 1980s junk-bond king, who has already spent time in prison, campaigned for a pardon, but enemies and victims resisted. White House officials say he never had much of a chance, but they didn't want to rule a pardon out in case someone convinced Clinton...
...swindle in U.S. history, to the tune of almost $50 million - not to mention trading with Iran during the hostage crisis. The latter charge was later dropped against Rich's company but not against Rich and Green personally. (Not everybody was as lucky as Rich; junk-bond king Michael Milken, who was opposed by the SEC, and convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who has no fans in the intelligence community, were denied pardons...
...Melting pot regions will become increasingly young, multiethnic and culturally vibrant," William Frey, a demographer with the University of Michigan and the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, told the Washington Post. "Heartland regions," says Frey. "will become older, more staid and less ethnically diverse...
...cities with the highest rates of growth when it comes to technology companies--places like Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Fort Worth and Austin, Texas--also happen to be the cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...