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...grandkids, they didn't really need it either." Conover had done very well as a trial lawyer, and he was working part-time as a mediator. He kept thinking there must be a better use for the money. Surely he wasn't the only person who could spare some of the dough in a monthly Social Security check? And others, he thought, must also have his altruistic impulse to share some of their retirement earnings with a worthy cause...
...system would also mean that students doing laundry would not have to scrounge for spare change if they forgot to refill their ID cards, Boychenko wrote...
...spare time from her summer job at the Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society, Frommer began to toy with her own t-shirt designs about the Democratic running mate. Her favorite was a simple white t-shirt that proclaims, “John Edwards is Hot,” with a strapping image of the North Carolina senator hand-stenciled in black or navy blue paint on the front...
...trip to the crater is hard and hot: 150 km of corrugated red dirt road from Halls Creek, through a flat expanse of spinifex and low scrub. This Tanami Track, if you had a couple of days to spare, would lead you to Alice Springs, near the center of the continent, but instead the amateur crater hunter turns left into the desert. Twenty km on, the rim comes into view. Its 35-m slopes seem high after a few hours of traveling in only two dimensions, but a brief scramble over the rocks puts you on the lip. A wedge...
...deal, he leaves the day-to-day management of his empire to MGM Mirage CEO Terry Lanni, 61, a veteran casino executive who, like his boss, largely shuns the limelight. In a town famous for flashy characters, Lanni, who collects classic sports cars and carved wooden boxes in his spare time, has earned a reputation for integrity. Your good name, he insists, "is the one thing you can't afford to lose." Kerkorian is famous for having "ice water in his veins," as one former rival says. As the competition in Vegas builds, that should come in handy...