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...Donald Seawell, 65, chairman of the center and also president and chairman of the Denver Post, the opening was the first payoff on a huge investment-if not a gamble. Says Seawell, 'The Rocky Mountain states have always been have-nots as far as culture is concerned. Our planners say that Denver itself will double its population, to more than 3 million, in 20 years. They also say that if we tried to build this complex 20 years from now, the cost would be about $1 billion. It will take time, but we are looking for excellence in everything...
...only protesters in sight were somelaw studentswho--remembering Connally's indictment in 1973 on charges of accepting a payoff from the milk lobby--set up a booth outside the Science Center and sold the wholesome stuff...
...hour inspectors would show up and the exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around every month, like flies, looking for a payoff." As for tax fraud, explained Barasch: "Everybody chisels down." A squat man with a nervous twitch who calls himself "the second largest tax accountant in the Midwest after H & R Block," Barasch has done more chiseling, says the Sun-Times, than Michelangelo...
...winner's circle, a handsome man in his early 40s went to the cashier's window to collect his investment of $1,300 in win tickets and $600 in show tickets on Lebón. The cashier did not have the $80,440 payoff those tickets were worth on hand and told the bettor he would have to send to the track's main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window...
...members. Jimmy Carter was another beneficiary of the unions' largesse; he received more than $100,000 in his bid for the presidency. So when Murphy sponsored the cargo preference bill and Carter backed it last July, House Republican Leader John Rhodes was not totally unjustified in charging "political payoff...