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...ladies, who for a while thought they might have been counting annual club dues as investment gains (they weren't), evidently were making incorrect entries into their computer. Nobody double-checked the math. Poof! There goes their mystique, and possibly the lucrative cottage industry they had developed. Their first book, which mixed down-home recipes for the likes of Kentucky cream cake with investment tips, had that Warren Buffett-like 23.4% emblazoned across the cover. It sold 800,000 copies...
Suddenly, in walks the chief avatar of thedesensitized '90s and POOF! the spell is broken.On press night, when Tarantino opened a closetdoor to reveal the body of one of his victims,some people actually laughed. And can you blamethem? I mean, this is Quentin Tarantino!They were probably expecting him to kill heron-stage and toss off a twisted one-liner beforeher body hit the floor. They were probablyexpecting him to actually shoot heroin, notjust talk about...
...Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...
...over tax relief for investors centers on a cut in the capital-gains tax, the 28% levy that you pay on stocks, bonds and other assets held more than a year and sold at a profit. The bad part is that while it would be relatively easy to install--Poof! Your tax rate is lower--what the Federal Government really needs to do is figure out a more complex but also more beneficial fix, one that adjusts for the ravages of inflation. Don't get me wrong. A cut in the capital-gains tax rate is a good proposal...
Majority leader Dole ordered his staff early this month to work something out. But just when they thought they had a deal--poof!--another hold suddenly materialized. Only this time, word quickly got out that it was the work of Minnesota freshman Rod Grams. After that revelation, it took only a few days to work out a deal under which the bill will come to the Senate floor. And although the bill's supporters were livid over the delay, no one is talking seriously about abolishing holds. That's because almost every Senator has used it at one time...