Word: newtonism
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...Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Coupe de Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoying as Steve Lawrence...
...Europe, where markets were soon open because of the time difference with the U.S. East Coast. Prices of American stocks nosedived on London, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Even before the market opened in New York, the news of Granville's signal had spread along Wall Street. Said Newton Zinder, a first vice president at E.F. Hutton: "It was like Paul Revere's ride." As stocks tumbled, Granville proudly pronounced his feat "a hole...
...Kennedy memorial fund. The consumers will have their oil removed free of charge and will be able to deduct the donation from their income taxes, and the oil will be resold. CEC estimates the funds arising from the resale of the oil from HOT's pilot program in Newton alone will bring in more than half a million dollars...
Operating out of a small, unpretentious office in Newton, Mass., during the early '70s, Osserman and Garfinkle became titans in the tax-shelter business. Osserman, described by associates as the "brains" of the operation, was known to promise new clients that they would never have to pay another dime in taxes. In 1975 the two lawyers joined forces with Producers Meyer and Friedman, whose show-biz connections helped catch the stars as investors. A year later, the group leased 22,000 acres in Wyoming, ostensibly to develop coal deposits. The investors signed notes specifying that for every dollar they...
...career women. She expects her lover to display inexhaustible patience as she discusses her career "breakthrough," but when she aids him with his work it is only to criticize his sentence structure. "If I could just solve this problem, I'd be in a class with Euclid or Newton," she tells her lover as they lie in bed together. One sympathizes when, at the moment of their break-up, he laments, "It would be too exhausting to live through every moment of your life...