Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some celebrities invest a great deal of money to protect themselves from their fans. Gavin de Becker, who operates a 100-client security service in Los Angeles, charges those who request full-time protection an average of $225,000 a year. De Becker provides the staffs and publicists of celebrities with 20 pointers to help them screen letters or calls. A direct threat is not necessarily a good indicator of true danger, he says. " 'I'm going to kill you' is as common as a fan letter to many of these people." But, he adds, "it becomes different if someone...
Japan's pool of surplus capital being funnelled into other countries makes a retreat from foreign involvement impossible. Japanese investing abroad will demand that their government attempt to influence the policies and development of the nations where they have put their money...
Instituting such a program would simply allow Massachusetts to take the money that currently ends up in the hands of organized crime, which supports most of the illegal gambling around the country. This money could be spent on services like education and health care for the poor...
...hypocritical or not, should be irrelevant to the Legislature's deliberations. The league has no power to prevent the state from implementing the plan, and state representatives, when they return from recess in the fall, should see the plan for what it is: a sensible attempt both to raise money and to reduce the income of organized crime...
Kidder said the revenue department intends to work with local and state police to go after unreported assets that drug agencies are unable to seize through direct links with drug money...