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...They're investing in illiquid assets thatmature over many years and for anyone'scompensation to be heavily weighted toward thenear term in that sort of circumstance is absolutelunacy," the source said. "It's a license to stealin the hands of those inclined to do that...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Money Managers' Ethics Questioned | 4/27/1992 | See Source »

...DIFFERENT VEIN, Bromberg creates a hybrid of dixie-land and rock around Gus Cannon's "Stealin'," producing a sound interesting enough to justify its appearence as yet another version of that frequently recorded rag. On this cut, as throughout the album, Bromberg holds himself back, never displaying the sheer virtuousity he has shown himself to be capable of. At the start of the song, for example, he offers only a few bars of tasty rag picking before drowning the guitar out in a melange of horns, mandolin, bass and drums. Although the absence of flash is somewhat disappointing, Bromberg...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bromberg's Abandon | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

...Like the moment in the first act when Trumanesque "ex-President Hock-stader" assured a prospective presidential nominee: "And for another thing, you're a millionaire. People trust you rich boys. They figure you've got so much money of your own you won't go stealin' theirs." Or when fat "Senator Carlin" cracked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: That's a Joke, Son | 12/19/1960 | See Source »

...dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue of a discus thrower: What sort of a country is dis? Puttin up a monument of a guy stealin' hubcaps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 14, 1960 | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...convicted murderer, but you wall hang a horse thief." The old judge rang a spittoon with a stream of tobacco juice. "Sonny," he replied, "I reckon that's 'cause we got men that need killin' but we ain't got no hosses that need stealin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Murdertown, U.S.A. | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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