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...such banks set up over the past several years across the mainland specifically to lend to small companies. One applicant, the owner of a factory that makes pickled vegetables, visited Binbin's office recently with his ledger: a single piece of handwritten paper folded in his breast pocket. Other would-be borrowers often pile receipts on Binbin's desk in lieu of a balance sheet. Even those who keep books "usually have two or three," Binbin says. "They figure out what we want and write it down...
...save $14 million or more in taxes. Michael Eisner, ceo of the Walt Disney Co., could shave off $1 million. Still others belong to an elite tax-savings fraternity. Most notably: the five members of the Walton clan of Arkansas, the first family of Wal-Mart Stores, who could pocket $187 million...
Jack Nicklaus carries three tees and three pennies in his pocket when he plays. Fred Couples only uses balls with ones and threes on them. Golfers may be the most superstitious of all pro athletes, but no good-luck charm has swept the tour like a little ornament called the QLink. A lightweight pendant worn as a necklace, it supposedly helps the body ward off electromagnetic fields and increases mental stamina. Clarus Products International has sold more than 200,000 of the pendants since 1999 and claims that 300 pros are now wearing them. The company cites scientists who tout...
...partner at Chadbourne & Parke, a New York City compensation law firm. Likely candidates for loans include sales execs, who may land a sign-on bonus too. Also on the table for V.P.s and up: club memberships, private-school tuition and a relocation deal that puts cash in your pocket...
...again. And he isn't worried that grownup marketing concerns will make it difficult for him to summon his inner boy. "For me, it's more of an effort getting out of the place where I think like a child," he says. Financial maturity has its upside too: more pocket money to blow on robots, other toys and old woodworking tools on eBay. Not to mention the freedom to create more fantasy worlds. After all, what's the fun in growing up if you can't play with your toys whenever you want...