Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...June the campaign held its first major fund raiser at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel. The take: $2.1 million, three times as much as any Democrat had ever received in a single event. The campaign privately set an ambitious goal of collecting $6.5 million in 1987, then ) proceeded to rake in $10 million. It made Dukakis a front runner before any votes were cast. "Money," says Bob Farmer, the Governor's fund-raising guru, "is the first primary...
Karl Spilhaus shops with a mission. His busy hands rake through the winter- coat racks, expertly fingering the fabric as he examines the labels and checks the prices. When Spilhaus senses a swindle, he purchases the suspicious garment and whisks it to a laboratory where it is sectioned, stripped of dyes and studied under microscopes. Spilhaus is searching for counterfeit cashmere, and all too often he finds it. A garment labeled 70% cashmere/30% wool frequently contains no more than 5% cashmere. The rest? Recycled rags, human hair, acrylic, asbestos, rabbit fur and even newspaper...
...them wisely and you can rake in lots...
...transaction was a big-league leveraged buyout, the increasingly popular type of acquisition financed largely through borrowed funds. In this case, Lewis got the money from the high-rolling Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. When the takeover is completed, TLC is expected to rake in $2 billion in annual revenues -- far more than the $173.5 million reported last year by Johnson Publishing (Ebony magazine), which topped Black Enterprise magazine's list of the largest black-owned companies. Says Lewis of his new stature: "I like to stretch myself. I like to face challenges...
...bazaars, everything from carpets to Coca-Cola was selling briskly. Even so, the mujahedin have forced the government of & Communist Party Chief Najibullah to take precautions within the capital. There are insistent signs of anxiety. Sounds of distant artillery salvos punctuate Kabul evenings like erratic heartbeats. Searchlights rake the surrounding hills in search of rebel infiltrators. In the daytime, armored personnel carriers often clatter through city streets that are patrolled by soldiers armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles...