Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deans accused the current board of wasting money to test out competitive bidding approaches to providing legal services for low-income citizens...
...biography of Revlon co-founder Charles Revson; The Invisible Bankers, a critique of the insurance industry; and The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need, all big sellers. A prolific contributor to New York, Esquire and other magazines, Tobias has also written a computer program, Managing Your Money, which since 1984 has sold more than 250,000 copies...
Starting this week, Tobias will write a regular column for TIME called "Money Angles," which will appear in the Business section every two or three weeks. Tobias will write primarily about personal investing but will occasionally comment on wider economic and financial issues. Says Business editor Stephen Koepp: "Andy brings a rare combination of irreverence and expertise to these topics. Whenever he troops through the jungles of financial arcana, he always emerges with pithy, practical advice for his readers and unusual insights into the latest financial trends. He skewers the bad deals and scouts out the good ones...
...gold card for 21 years now, and am thus something of a student of American Express. I watched in amazement as it introduced flight insurance, in admiration as it goosed charge volume by offering to donate money to the Statue of Liberty, in wonder as it offered the platinum card (twice to a friend who was at the same time being dunned for late payments on his green card), and in awe as it offered baggage insurance against the possibility that your tennis racket would wind up in Acapulco more than six hours after you did. (A mere...
...Once in, you can stop making new contributions -- but it's expensive to get old ones out. So don't think you'll just pocket that 12% for a year and then move on to something else. If you withdraw your money, Amex charges a penalty, 7% the first year, which gradually evaporates in seven years. But there's also the 10% IRS penalty on withdrawals before age 59 1/2 and, whatever your age, the income tax due on the interest your funds have earned...