Word: money
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kemp treated Pierce gently, he scoffed at the claims of some prominent Republicans that the huge fees they received from developers for their influence in obtaining HUD contracts had not hurt taxpayers. The department, he testified, had given developers "a reason to hire a consultant" and then provided "the money to pay the consultant's fees." Moreover, he said, private brokers who handled house sales for HUD and then failed to turn the money over to the Government were not "Robin Hood-type heroes . . . robbing the rich. They are stealing from the taxpayer and depriving low- and moderate- income people...
...Today some 23,000 homeless children, compared with an estimated 2,000 a decade ago, roam the streets of Managua. At a busy intersection, a twelve-year-old girl throws a pack of cigarettes through a car window into a driver's lap. As she stuffs a wad of money into her torn blouse she blows a kiss, leans forward and asks, "Do you want to see more...
...hectic scene marked the latest and most dramatic stage of a three-way battle that has captured the attention of everyone from billion-dollar money & managers to Hollywood movie directors. At issue before Judge Allen was an effort by Paramount Communications to block Time Inc. from acquiring Warner Communications in a $14 billion friendly merger that would create the world's largest information and entertainment company. If the judge had granted Paramount's motion, which was joined by several major Time shareholders, Paramount could have pressed ahead with its hostile bid to acquire Time for $12 billion. But after...
...will be hard in an era of budget deficits. But there is support for a Mars mission in both the House and the Senate. If the President comes out strongly for the mission, Congress should be able to find a way to fund it. One option: to siphon the money from Star Wars and other questionable defense programs...
...trading on his guest list have ended, and he has gone underground. Those who once dined at his table are wondering out loud about the curious 8-ft.-long two-way mirror in his house, and the young men, and what exactly Craig Spence did to earn all the money he was throwing around. They wonder only now that the party is over...