Word: tysons
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...result is that he has been reluctant to challenge the state's economic giants on behalf of those who sit at the bottom of the pecking order. Clinton has sought few improvements in the industry's working conditions, while at the same time showering the largest chicken producer, Tyson Foods, with millions of dollars in tax breaks for expanding its plants and work force. It is a cozy relationship in a state where the powerful often rub elbows. Tyson has provided free airplane rides for the Governor and his wife, for both personal and business trips, and the company...
...company better exemplifies the industry's successes and failures than Tyson, based in Springdale, in the heart of Arkansas' poultry belt. Tyson, whose 1992 sales of $4 billion are nearly twice the size of the Arkansas state budget, produces 20% of America's chickens. Last month, after sharing a dinner of grilled chicken with a TIME reporter, vice chairman John Tyson -- son of the chairman -- boasted that the growth in the company's earnings per share from 1980 to 1990 ranked No. 1 among FORTUNE 500 companies. Total profits have increased fourteenfold in the past decade...
...Nassau packs a serious punch: Mike Tyson wearing a concrete glove, a.k.a. Keith Elias, a 5'11", 190-lbs. running back who finds holes where there are none, breaks tackles that have already been made and holds onto the ball even when it's hit out of his hands...
Virginia Coach Arena marked Princeton midfielders Joe Thieman and Thad McBride as premier players, and was also impressed with the play of Tigers defender Tyson...
...addition to the lawyers advising her on the custody case, Farrow retained attorney Alan Dershowitz, who has acquired the odor of a Lamborghini ambulance chaser for his showboating defenses of the rich and heinous (Claus von Bulow, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson). Dershowitz contended that Allen's custody suit was "concocted" to obscure the issue of child molestation. He denied Allen's charge that Farrow, who took no alimony in her divorces from Frank Sinatra and composer-conductor Andre Previn, was demanding $7 million as a payoff to retract the child-abuse accusation. "Baloney," said Dershowitz; Farrow only "wants her family...