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These big up-front puck artists also lack experience, but the feeling is that a competitive start and no early blow-outs will lead to continued improvement by the obviously-talented forwards. "We're relying on freshmen, and it's a big jump for them," says Cleary "The question is how fast they can make that jump...
...first love (but no sex), and a small brawl (with some blood spilled, but no guts). These days, PGs are about teenagers who do what adults do in Rs, but not on screen. So we get heavy titillation instead of heavy sex, and scuffles suggesting murders instead of up-front violence...
...investors is no small matter. As a matter of equity, it is difficult for American farmers to pay a capital gains tax when they sell land, while their German or Japanese neighbors pay no tax at all. Moreover, the avoidance of capital gains taxes gives the alien purchaser an up-front advantage of around 25% on initial investment. With no capital gains tax, there is no deterrent to speculation in U.S. land...
Billy, on the other hand, has pursued his lucrative celebrity with such up-front good ole boy's cupidity that his ventures seem quite innocent-especially after Watergate. Critics quick to seize upon any hinted impropriety around a President have laughed off Billy. No one has to suspect Billy of anything -he simply takes a certified check, in advance, then goes out behind the microphone, usually clutching a cold one, and exhales his ineffable magic: one-liners, snorts ("hee-unh, hee-unh"), the buffooneries of a quick-witted redneck (self-advertised). "I ain't the Carter that...
...biggest privately financed urban-development deals in history. Ren Cen's first mortgage loan came to $200 million, which Ford and friends say is the largest mortgage ever awarded to a single real estate project. Twenty-eight banks had to share the load for the up-front construction loan that the mortgage will cover. Among them: Chase Manhattan, Morgan Guaranty, First National of Chicago and Bank of America. The 51 Ren Cen partners, for their part, coughed up $114 million in equity, much of it in staggered amounts as costs surged. Said one banking partner, watching his contributions swell...