Word: moneyman
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...schedule to small-dollar events. In Kentucky, the month after he announced his run for President, the first such effort quickly sold out all 3,200 tickets at $25 a head - and produced the beginning of a local organization. "It's the difference between hunting and farming," says Obama moneyman Matthew Barzun, 37, the Louisville Internet-publishing entrepreneur who arranged the event. "You plant a seed, and you get much more...
...love, although there are hints of that too in, say, 300. This is the kind of sacrificial, I'll-do-anything-for-you love that we associate with young lovers. Ocean's Thirteen is essentially the story of what guys will do to avenge the frilly-shirt-wearing Vegas moneyman they adore. (One of them writes him love letters!) Spider-Man 3 is as much about Peter Parker and erstwhile best friend Harry Osborn getting back together as it is about Peter and Mary Jane. In Knocked Up, the courtship that's most fun to watch is that between...
...most part, the founders of Giuliani Partners were as New York as breakfast at Barney Greengrass. One man stood out: Roy Bailey. He wasn't part of the city's revival or linked to its gutsy endurance. Bailey was a Texan, a Republican moneyman and a former finance chairman of the Texas G.O.P. and was therefore intimately familiar with the inner workings and deep pockets of the most awesome fund-raising operation in political history, the Bush network...
...bonds--IOUs with relatively poor quality ratings--and other securities that offer high yields. Like the banks, investors count on getting their money back from earnings of the acquired firm or from the sale of its assets. "Lenders look for a business that is very stable," says a California moneyman. "The company ought to generate lots of cash...
Recent Veep contender John Edwards has been on the phone to thank supporters and say he will be back, but "he didn't impress anyone" with his work on the trail last year, a moneyman says, and may be a tough sell. And then there's Hillary Clinton, who remains publicly focused on getting re-elected to the Senate in 2006. Many insiders take it as a given that she will be in the '08 lineup and will be the name-recognition champ to beat. Yet, says a top Democratic fund raiser in New York, "there's a real unease...