Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...children's ambitions, was its concentration and independence. He had no firm or board of directors to whom he owed an accounting. Awed associates watched as he closed business deals by writing checks totaling millions of dollars. Now the managers and trustees are bound to spend money cautiously. The interests of grandchildren must be protected. It will not be so easy to plow millions into a particular political cause...
...corporation from scratch reflected on the career of his friend Joe Kennedy: "Joe was a pure capitalist, not the Wall Street kind. The Wall Street establishment has a bias on the bull side. Joe didn't. He never took responsibility for building or running anything. But he had money sense. He knew what to use his money for-how to have fun with it. Joe bought all those houses. He made all those movies. He understood about buying himself positions in government-London, for example. And he knew how to use money to push his children along as fast...
...married the Fairest of the Fair. They had two children, Damon and Tahnee. Raquel the housewife interspersed domestic chores with dramatics classes at San Diego State College, and soon grew restive. After three years, the Welches parted?"inevitably," Welch now feels. Raquel headed for Dallas, where she made enough money modeling for Neiman-Marcus and hustling cocktails to have her nose fixed before assaulting Hollywood...
...office. On location, Brown did little to smooth the situation, which took on unfortunate racial overtones. At lunch he growled at her: "Pass the salt; it isn't black." She and Brown finally stopped talking altogether. The picture was execrable. But it cost only $6 million and raked in money. Another south-of-the-border oater, Bandolero, gave Raquel the opportunity to demand of Dean Martin, "How duss hay man get to be han hanimal like ju?" Such lines at least scotched rumors that Raquel was a crypto-Chicano; her accent was pure Hollywood...
...Call for Controls. The meeting took place amid increasing signs that businessmen are growing pessimistic about the chances that the Administration's strategies of tight money and budget surplus will actually stop inflation. The latest economic statistics indicate that the policies are indeed slowing the economy. Corporate profits dropped sharply in the third quarter, and industrial production fell in October for the third straight month (see chart). Housing starts fell 12% last month to the lowest level in two years, and new orders for durable goods, which had risen sharply in September, settled back again. The price picture...