Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VOICES are full of money. Ladies in silver shoes and ermine and men in tightly pressed tuxedos yield expectantly before the flowing red carpet. Suddenly the lights blaze brighter; people whisper that she has arrived; the music starts up and, from around the corner, the cheering begins. Is this the return of some long lost queen? But isn't there something too familiar in all those flash bulbs popping? As hundreds of hands push paper and pen toward her our doubts disappear. It is another opening night in Hollywood...
...Because a Los Angeles taxpayer bought 300 head of cattle for $45,000 and borrowed $75,000 from a bank through a cattle-feeding loan program, he will be able to deduct about $55,000 from his projected gross income of $160,000 this year. Other tax shelters include silver options, oil leases, movie financing and sport franchises. These are all chancy businesses, and the tax breaks were set up to encourage investment in them...
...album for three months, but Wonder kept fiddling away at his unfinished work. Last week the wait ended as Stevie, clad in Lone Ranger rig, welcomed critics and reporters to North Brookfield, Mass., for a preview of Songs in the Key of Life. The record just might earn a silver bullet on the charts. Even before public release this week, more than 1 million copies of Songs have been sold...
...Jonathan Silver '79 waited patiently at the end of a longish line, struggling under a 24-book load...
...buying these on the assumption that I'll be returning a large percentage of them," Silver explained. "I can peruse them at home, and I can't do that here, and some of these books are what I hope to be the foundation of my future library...