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...nation's largest financial firms, including Wall Street titans Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as well as Bank of America, which recently acquired securities firm Merrill Lynch. That, along with other Treasury Department moves to rescue Wall Street, will mean the wallets of many investment bankers will be fatter than they would have been...
John Candy was the lead in a lot of movies. I mean, there's been much fatter, uglier people than me who've done this. So I'd say no, not necessarily. That being said, I've noticed a lot more guys who kind of look like me out in the world. Like, there's more slightly heavyset Jewish guys who have dark glasses and let their hair grow out a little bit. Me and Jonah Hill have started that trend...
...Will eating a calorie of fat make you fatter than eating a calorie of carbohydrate...
...clubs Spartak and Dynamo are sponsored by their corporate patrons - also from the oil and gas sector - Yukos and Lukoil, respectively. The war chests that such firms bring to the game have led to galloping salary inflation, says midfielder Alexei Smertin - who is leaving London's Fulham for a fatter contract with Lokomotiv in Moscow. Enormous sums are also being spent to build or renovate stadiums and training centers - cheered on by Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, who heads the country's top football league and its football federation. And the largesse isn't flowing exclusively to the pro game...
...that $1 million is going to filter into the wider economy," says Jonathan Said, senior economist at the Centre for Economic and Business Research. "A relatively small proportion of what they spend would feed through, compared to a middle-class person." The tabloid headlines scream out FAT CATS GETTING FATTER, but some argue that their contribution to the local economy doesn't matter, saying that the most valuable thing the global rich bring to Britain isn't their cash. Tony Travers, head of the Greater London Group at the London School of Economics, says that visible groups of powerful people...