Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...break Arthur 2. Still, Yorkin deserves sympathy for getting caught in a zeitgeist warp. Seven years ago, at the dawn of the Reagan era, a movie drunk could seem a sweet anachronism, a throwback to giddier times with fewer responsibilities. Today Americans know there is a price to be paid for every excess, fiscal or physical. And in a town where, as one wag notes, "there are more stars at a Rodeo Drive Alcoholics Anonymous meeting than there are at the Academy Awards," a few moviemakers are taking the pledge to put drug and alcohol addiction onscreen...
...probe of insider trading based on purloined early copies of Business Week magazine expanded to include at least 16 suspects on both coasts. In the most fully investigated case so far, former Merrill Lynch Broker William Dillon, 33, is believed to have paid employees at a magazine printing plant in Connecticut to give him copies of Business Week a full day before the issue was available to the general public so he could buy stocks recommended in the "Inside Wall Street" column before the price went up. Dillon typically paid $30 an issue, but allegedly reaped profits...
...failure of Texas-based Vernon Savings and Loan, in which regulators charge that top officials have looted the S and L for their own gain, former Senior Vice President John Hill, 40, pleaded guilty in March to a single count of conspiracy. According to court papers, Hill had arranged "paid female companionship" at a 1985 company board meeting in Solana Beach, Calif., by flying in two prostitutes from Dallas and hiring as many as ten others locally. Vernon Savings picked...
...caught up in making more." Some S and Ls that believe they were plundered by their officers are taking them to court. Dallas-based Sunbelt Savings Association is suing former Chairman Edwin McBirney III and other ex-managers for $630 million. The suit alleges in part that McBirney paid "excessive commissions and fees" to friends and relatives. In one instance, McBirney is accused of allowing a company owned by his wife to borrow more than $200,000. McBirney / calls the allegations "an effort by current management personnel to cover up their own mismanagement...
...latest acquisition two weeks ago, scholars applauded the work as a masterpiece. Dating from the 5th century B.C. and believed to represent Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, the marble and limestone figure drew praise for its unusually good condition and majestic beauty. But Getty officials, who reportedly paid $20 million for the piece, may have got more than they bargained...