Word: peg
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DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in vaudeville, film and TV; performed with musicians such as Louis Armstrong; and made more than 20 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show...
...Austin bureau chief, had been investigating private banking, traveling around the U.S. and to Switzerland to track down money trails, so he rushed back to Austin to begin writing. "This story evolved in a perfect way," he says. "We researched a good idea for months, and when a news peg finally came, we were able to seize on it, offering readers the latest information along with a rich context in which...
...weighing expensive purchases. The goals are to make both the family's day-to-day life easier and the child's financial future more stable. "Every parent hopes they'll raise a money-savvy kid, who'll grow up to be a financially secure adult," says financial planner Peg Eddy. The trick, say Eddy and most experts, is letting kids learn by having a little money of their...
Taking the time to talk to your kids about money is the best way to head off trouble. "Families should sit down and discuss this before consumer messages win out in a kid's mind," planner Peg Eddy says. "That means early, probably around age four or five." Parents should explain to young children that there is a house to live in and toys to play with because Mommy and Daddy work and save money. As children get older, parents may discuss more specific issues, like saving for education, giving money to charity and budgeting for holiday or back...
...Some have speculated that Steve's arroganceis a product of growing up in culturally deficientMinnesota, that he still feels as though he has toprove he's not from the sticks, that really he'squite insecure deep-down, if only you'd get toknow him. Others just peg him as an asshole. Thisseems to be supported by his statement that "Whatwe sing about is none of your business anyway."Why bother recording or performing it, then? Or,from the Big Black tour diary available on the Web(which is remarkably funny and depressing):"Audience hatred reached a new plateau...