Word: piranhas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the MRI tie-in was realized, Walsworthsaid local scientists rushed to study and takeadvantage of the new idea like "piranha...
Kidder's chairman, Michael A. Carpenter, noted that the "power" of the 36-year-old Jett was "hard to ignore." Other traders considered Jett "extremely strong-willed" and often referred to him as the "Human Piranha...
After more stories and another novel, Sayles went to work in Hollywood for B-movie king Roger Corman, churning out such scripts as Piranha, a low-budget rip-off of Jaws. His idols, however, were independent filmmakers like John Cassavetes. In 1978, having saved $40,000 from script fees and book royalties, Sayles struck out on his own; he recruited a cast of actor friends and made the film that would become The Return of the Secaucus Seven...
...arrangement was almost twice as remunerative as a similar scheme that contributed to the forced resignation of House speaker Jim Wright last year. After reaching the Senate limit on outside income from speeches, Durenberger in 1985 and 1986 made 113 additional appearances before groups that sent speaking fees to Piranha Press, the publisher of Durenberger's books, Neither Madmen nor Messiahs and Prescription for Change. Piranha then paid the Senator for "promoting" the books, although investigators found he rarely mentioned them in his talks, nor were copies available for sale. Wright, who also sought to circumvent limits on outside earnings...
...breaking up, and he had four sons to send to college. That year and the next, he collected a total of $100,000 through the book-promotion deal, more than double the Senate's $46,000 limit on honorariums. His aides told groups to send their checks to Piranha Press, the Minnesota publisher of his two books. Piranha passed the money along to him as a "stipend" for promotional work...