Word: sweethearted
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...somewhere in the background," says an FBI specialist on the Genovese family. Says labor consultant Daniel Sullivan, an FBI source on the Mob who has testified in the case: "It's a classic Mob relationship. Trump or his people had to have a deal to get such a sweetheart contract...
Equally troubling for Chiles has been Nelson's suggestion that he benefited from a series of "sweetheart" business deals while a Senator, including loans and real estate investments that went unreported on his financial- disclosure forms. Thus far there is no evidence that Chiles is guilty of anything more than sloppy recordkeeping. But Nelson is trying to sow doubt in voters' minds about his opponent's integrity, the linchpin of Chiles' campaign. In response, Chiles crashed a Nelson press conference in Tallahassee last month and angrily accused his opponent of smear tactics. "If you've decided you want...
...admitting that it needs $100 billion much sooner than expected to continue its cleanup of the shattered savings and loan industry. Then tempers flared at a Senate probe of charges that the government turned over more than 200 failed thrifts to investors in 1988 in what amounted to sweetheart deals. Finally, the beleaguered Resolution Trust Corporation, which is managing the bailout, disclosed plans to dispose of 130 more thrifts and to sell $50 billion of seized assets by the end of the year in an effort to raise desperately needed cash...
...call me a hater of comic lore. But I'm neither. Honestly, I would have loved to see a film done with all of the simple plots we all know and love so well--hero chases bad guy, puts him behind bars and then vows eternal love to his sweetheart--but the problem with Tracy is that it left a boring plot boring...
...fast-consolidating worldwide music business, the hottest property around was Geffen Records, the last of the big independent labels. Everyone wanted to buy the stable of stars built by hitmaker David Geffen, 47. Last week, in a sweetheart deal that was the talk of Hollywood, Geffen sold his company to MCA in a stock transaction worth an estimated $550 million, but got to stay on as chairman of the label, which records Cher, Don Henley and Guns N' Roses. The agreement makes Geffen MCA's biggest stockholder, with 11% of the entertainment conglomerate...