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...popular ruse, known as "churning," gives him a fat commission, but it uses the cash value of your policy to pay the initial costs of a larger one, and could soon mean bigger premiums. As part of a class action, millions of State Farm customers recently won a multimillion-dollar settlement after being taken by that phony pitch, among others. For added coverage, a separate, supplemental policy is better...
These explosive growth rates cause companies to confront the recurring Velcro Valley conundrum: What starts out as a couple of bros silk-screening T shirts and writing invoices on brown paper bags can quickly grow into a multimillion-dollar business. When that happens, it gets a little harder to take the afternoon off to go surfing. "If you want to grow," says Danny Kwok of Quiksilver, "you gotta give away a little bit of your life-style...
...does Hoffa propose to go where Congress wouldn't? Sources close to Hoffa say his first act as president-elect was to give the go-ahead for a multimillion-dollar civil-racketeering suit against, among others, the D.N.C. The suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president RON CAREY and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund raisers, including TERRENCE MCAULIFFE, who was recently appointed chief fund raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey's 1996 election as union president found that...
...does Hoffa propose to go where Congress wouldn?t? Sources close to Hoffa say his first act as president-elect was to give the go-ahead for a multimillion-dollar civil-racketeering suit against, among others, the DNC. The suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president Ron Carey and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund-raisers, including Terrence McAuliffe, who was recently appointed chief fund-raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey?s 1996 election as union president found that...
City water in Jonesboro, Ark., doesn't stink. In fact, even wastewater flowing out of the big, new Frito-Lay plant there runs through an expanded treatment facility in order to minimize environmental problems. That expansion was part of a multimillion-dollar incentive package the AEDC gave Frito-Lay to lure the company to Jonesboro. Frito-Lay is not exactly needy. It is a profitable subsidiary of PepsiCo Inc., the giant soft-drink and snack-food company that had sales of $20.9 billion...