Word: woman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deposits. Then along came a miserly Pittsburgh, Pa., financier named J. Knox McConnell, who drove an old Buick and wore threadbare suits but was worth $23 million. He hired only women--"Knox's Foxes," they were called--to discourage distracting office romances. His longtime companion was Billie Cherry, a woman who worked for him. Cherry and her friend Terry Church followed Knox from Pittsburgh to Keystone. The bank moved aggressively into the national market for "subprime" home-equity loans, which are riskier than first mortgages but generate higher interest payments. Keystone was earning about 5% profit on its assets--more...
...would think Jane Clayson was just another ambitious young woman who landed a job in New York City--scrambling to find an apartment, deposited (temporarily) by her employer in what is, truth be told, a pretty crappy office. Inoffensive museum posters hang on the wall; the painted metal and laminate desk is bare of much but a Poland Spring bottle and a phone; a generic screen saver plays across the monitor of a generic PC. In the middle of an interview, her phone rings. And rings. She rises apologetically and answers it herself. "It's what I'm used...
...years her junior who was a Jew, yet she was an anti-Semite and in the Nazi-occupied France of World War II displayed what Thurman generously calls a "moral lethargy." At 47, she began a serious love affair with her stepson, then 16. "A real woman is good," a man who knew her told Thurman. "Colette was not good...
...brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind), as well as the reincarnation of the Prophet Isaiah. At present, I am on hold, waiting to translate (die and take my body with me)." Last, a South Carolina minister said, "When we fully understand...
...Absolutely. To be able to see my children in the water at the beach is truly wonderful. Could I afford it? No way. So to my incredible mother who gave me (and my sister) the gift of sight after 20-plus years, I say, "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen." ELLEN MURPHY BENNETT Atlanta...