Word: tip
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Will Fox Catch the Peacock? (FBR) -- With the loss of "Seinfeld" and possible defection of "ER," NBC's Thursday night flagship is looking decidedly leaky. The FORTUNE Business Report says today that the hot tip to replace NBC as the No. 1 network is Rupert Murdoch...
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Brown also studies "tip-of-the-tongue" situations, when subjects cannot quite remember the word for which they were searching...
Fernando Carreira, the caretaker who tipped off police to Cunanan's presence on the houseboat, ultimately received $55,000 in reward money, although the highly publicized $10,000 promised by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has yet to materialize (trying to wriggle out on a technicality, the city claims Carreira called the wrong tip line; a lawsuit may be in the works). Carreira used most of his windfall to pay off debts. His only splurge was on a horse named Princess, which he bought for his 15-year-old son. "It keeps him occupied," Carreira told the Miami Herald...
...used to it. "Unless you're completely nuts," says Chinaman, "you're careful. If you find 10 grand, say, you take only three or four. You can't raid a drug house and come back and not turn in some money. That'd be a sure tip...