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...difficult. "I won't take a half-million-share stake in a day," he says. "I'll buy 50,000 shares a day for months to build up a position." Danoff is candid about the downside of running a fund so large: "You're racing a Mack truck against a speedster [i.e., a smaller, competing fund]. I go 45 miles per hour, and the speedster goes 70 miles an hour. But he may spin out at some point. I'll do well if I stay out of trouble...
John Ruan is a big man in a small state. And since that state is Iowa, the location of the nation's first presidential caucuses, perennial candidate Dole went to extraordinary lengths to help Ruan, who owns a multimillion-dollar trucking company. In return Ruan has held fund raisers in Des Moines, and is considered an important reason Dole has won the Iowa caucuses twice. But those wins came at a price: $8.5 million. That's how much Dole saved Ruan in taxes by retaining for Ruan the 10% investment tax credit that was taken away from virtually everybody else...
...shuttle, which was traveling westbound, ran into the opened front door of a delivery truck outside Friendly Eating Place, 985 Mass. Ave., around 12:45 p.m. Saturday...
Witnesses said the delivery truck was double-parked with its back door open, apparently marking a delivery. The M2 shuttle moved into the other lane of traffic but did not avoid the truck...
...door of the truck was completely crushed and pushed forward," said passenger Vandana L. Madhavan '98. "We were passing close to a truck, and all of a sudden, I heard a loud crashing noise...