Word: rent
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...arrogance were virtues, there would be a lot of saints on Wall Street. The most hallowed of the lot would include the highly successful Michael Price, who oversees $26 billion at Franklin Mutual Advisers, and the equally prosperous CEO-for-rent Al Dunlap, who is doing a tour at small-appliance maker Sunbeam Corp. In a brazen display of cronyism, the two last week publicly denounced ITT Corp.'s tactics in fending off a hostile takeover by Hilton Hotels. Picture that: Price, whom FORTUNE magazine calls "the scariest s.o.b. on Wall Street," linking with Dunlap, whose endearing nicknames include "Chainsaw...
After hauling a load 3,000 miles in three days, you don't need a Celestine Prophecy. Truckers, who seem to dote on books on tape, rent mostly adventure books, mysteries and sci-fi, according to Audio Adventures, a company based in Colorado that rents tapes at 450 truck stops to 50,000 members. The top July rentals...
...lawyer Bob Bennett, constrained by politics from delving into PAULA JONES' sexual history as he prepares for a possible trial in her harassment suit, intends to probe what he asserts was Jones' real motive for coming forward: money. To that end, a crucial witness could be CARRIE FERRARO, who rented Paula and Steve Jones a Glendale, Calif., house in May 1993. Ferraro told TIME that almost from the start, the couple complained of being broke. They were frequently late paying the $900 monthly rent, she says, and Paula often asked to borrow money. The chatty Paula, she claims, never mentioned...
...sparring with his city's traditionally Democratic teachers' union and the N.A.A.C.P. Goldsmith alienated his party's establishment by firing patronage appointees who stood in the way of his efforts to privatize. Says New York's Giuliani, a Republican who broke with his party by lobbying to save rent regulations: "It's better to keep your constituents happy than to keep a political party happy." So far, it's been a winning strategy: all these mayors have been re-elected handily, except Giuliani--who is running this year and led his nearest rival by 23% in a recent poll...
...since. Conversation is a mix of politics, Laurene's work setting up a mentor group for a nearby high school and tales of a presidential visit last summer when Bill Clinton rang up and invited himself to dinner so he could meet with Silicon Valley executives. "We had to rent a Dumpster to clean out the house before they came!" says Jobs, whose prenuptial housing style was "spare," if that's the term for lacking furniture. The couple giggle over their search for cheap wine glasses to serve the President. The menu was, naturally, vegan...