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Austin said she approached Beys to vote on thefee hike referendum and was asked if she had anyquestions. She said ""Sure--why the rateincrease?' And he gave me his spiel, which Ilistened...
...correspondent stopped a Key Tour that was just finishing up the "Three Lies of the John Harvard Statue" spiel. Knowing that Crimson Key folks went gaga for good humor, FM decided to crack a joke...
...weekend here and you'll never want to live anywhere else," proclaimed the sales brochure for the 42 lots of the Whitewater project near Flippin in northern Arkansas. However, despite the scenic snapshots and the homey-but- hokey handwritten spiel, no one was buying into the forested real estate development. To spur sales, Jim McDougal, a local savings and loan tycoon, % thought he needed a model home -- and the help of one of his Whitewater partners, Hillary Rodham, as she then called herself. In 1980 McDougal loaned her $30,000 to build, own and ultimately sell a three-bedroom ranch...
Sean's conversation-stopper--"what do you think about Harvard women?"--was a running joke by the time we hit Baltimore. He had a whole tongue-in-cheek spiel to go with...
...insists, of course, that all he really wants is to serve his clients. "Imagine all of the most talented artists here," he says, extending his right hand, palm up. "Over there," he says, pointing to a television set and launching into a spiel that he may have delivered once or twice before, "is a primitive version of a machine that will offer nearly unlimited possibilities for entertainment within about 10 years. What I have to do is get these talented people through a period of relatively low demand the best way I can. Because once those technologies are in place...