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...toes." While such a feat would greatly amuse my colleagues, who would attest to my flat-footed approach, I was actually talking about clamming. Having been a student of this resilient beast for several years, becoming conversant with his habits, movements and gregarious behavior, I cast my bull rake aside this summer and taught myself. I told your reporter, to clarn "with my toes...
...call family and friends in Central and South America for just 50 cents a minute -- less than half the nighttime rate for standard phones. Even at that low price the shop's owners, who had rigged their phones to bill the calls to other people's numbers, managed to rake in up to $200,000 in just six months before police raided the store in June. "They were basically operating their own phone company," says Bill Brush of the Secret Service, the agency involved in breaking up the ring. "It was pure profit...
Diller had other reasons to err on the side of caution. While serving as chairman of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Inc. in the late 1980s, he saw how excessive debt almost sank that entertainment company. In the end, Diller essentially threw in his hand and let Redstone rake in the pot. For Redstone, the triumph in what he angrily came to call "the cruel, abusive and sometimes ridiculous battle for Paramount" could hardly have been sweeter. With the battle about to end last Monday, Redstone, Biondi and two Viacom colleagues repaired to the posh "21" Club in midtown Manhattan...
...staff of 20 year-round groundskeepers who maintain 70 percent of University property rake the leaves, blow them into piles and feed them through a vacuum and shredder...
These regulations allow stations such as TBS and WGN to broadcast games without Major League Baseball's consent. Vincent claimed such stations rake in nearly $100 million and reduce the monetary value of other baseball programming...