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Corriero admits she went on a mass-emailing spree of her own to procure votes, which may be made on the ESPY Award’s website, but credits her roommates and family with spreading the news far and wide. She is especially proud of Kelly Noon—a friend and former women’s lacrosse player—and Banfield for allegedly bombarding the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with flyers about the ESPYs...
...couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary of $5,700 a year, such a shopping spree amounted to more than 500 years' income for the former First Couple. "The Marcoses did not realize the value of money anymore," said Zobel. "They just kept on buying and buying...
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...latest megatakeover offers broke a relative lull in the merger spree--a lull, that is, only by recent standards. Last year more than 3,380 mergers and buyouts worth $1 million or more were completed in the U.S., with a total value in excess of $144 billion. In the first half of 1986 there were 1,639 similar transactions, worth more than $81 billion. But then the pace slowed a bit. In the past three months only 714 deals took place, involving more than $21 billion. Now, however, the merger game definitely seems to be heating up again. Allied Stores...
Whatever the outcome of the Idaho case, there is no question about violence committed by Identity believers elsewhere. Robert J. Mathews, who left Aryan Nations, Butler's umbrella organization for racists, and formed the Order, died in a 1984 gunfight with federal agents after a crime spree; other Order members drew prison terms of up to 100 years. In Arkansas last year, a heavily armed camp of another Identity group, the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord, surrendered to state and federal officers who confiscated a large arms cache and 30 gal. of cyanide. The leader...