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...been suffocating," complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas Governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker HENRY KRAVIS, oilman JOHN MORAN and fund manager LEWIS EISENBERG made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush's aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with STEVE FORBES and his unlimited wallet...
...plot is too good to spoil and too complex to spill. Just know that our gang (Flemyng, Jason Statham, Nick Moran and Dexter Fletcher), scrounging to find that half a million quid, overhears the goons next door plotting to steal money and drugs from four ganja growers nearby; our lads hope to cash that booty in with an Afro-Cockney gang. (Clear?) Then it all goes as wrong as a bad day in Bosnia. "Could everyone stop getting shot?" one of the goons pleads--and this is before a shoot-out that makes the St. Valentine's Day Massacre look...
...been suffocating,? complains a top moneyman for another campaign. Other Republican hopefuls crisscross the country and strain eager smiles for potential donors, but the Texas governor has let the party come to him. Last week a muscular troika of rainmakers that included investment banker Henry Kravis, oilman John Moran and fund manager Lewis Eisenberg made the pilgrimage. Rival camps are terrified that Bush will reject federal matching funds and the campaign-spending limits they impose, and Bush?s aides are coy on the subject. Why pass up the free money? To compete with Steve Forbes and his unlimited wallet...
...builder William Levitt and Levittown's clone houses. Similar suburban developments have resulted in the paving over of thousands of acres of farmland and forest. These people were not visionaries; they were opportunists who diminished the American quality of life while enhancing their own personal wealth. MATTHEW D. MORAN Conway...
...this, however, was a mere preamble to what would be the zenith of Moran's career: his plan to fly midgets (his word) on kites over Central Park, bearing an advertisement for a Moran client. Moran managed to hire a crew and repaired to Central Park for lift-off, his kite handlers and the undersize pilots sporting snappy uniforms and caps saying MORAN AERIAL ADVERTISING SERVICE. The day was fine, the winds conducive. But as the crew was in the process of getting the first pilot airborne, the authorities intervened. A cop asked Moran if he had a permit. Moran...