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Meyers agreed that the University has had Lady Luck in the pocket...
...Hundt; environmental companies came with pleadings for Browner and Grumbly. In short order, Knight was the top-billing partner at the firm, routinely grossing a seven-figure sum. At a firm in which, as a former partner put it, "you eat what you kill"--that is, you pocket everything after deducting your expenses and a share of the firm's overhead--Knight had hit pay dirt. In 1995 he billed $2.9 million. At one point Knight even garnered a $1 million "success fee" for helping a client achieve a particular outcome, according to several former partners...
...other may do the same. For months White House officials hoped that Clinton, who says he doesn't remember meeting Jones and denies the sexual-harassment allegations, could mitigate the embarrassment of a cash settlement by having his insurers write the check. But paying out of his own pocket would seem a clearer admission of guilt...
Case refined his education at Pizza Hut, chewing his way through a yearlong assignment to scout the latest in pizza innovation at the unhealthy rate of eight to 10 pies a day. He helped the Hut launch a "pocket" pizza called Calizza--it followed the towelette into oblivion--and divined what he says is the single most important law of business: success requires you to sit taste bud to taste bud with your customer...
...appurtenances of wealth are well known--the Range Rovers and Rolexes, the little Chanel purses and the personal chefs trained in the Pritikin diet. But in the horse country around Warrenton, Va., a lustrous green pocket one hour from Washington where the Mellons and Kennedys have homes, the wealthy have a little-known luxury. It's the imported Argentine polo player, a man who can do a lot for your game--and if you happen to be one of the available local horsewomen, escort you home afterward...