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Maybe not, but Lindner has long been a generous political bankroller. He and his companies lavished $1.3 million on G.O.P. committees from 1988 through 1994, while putting $625,000 in Democratic coffers. Lindner's holding company, American Financial Group, gave an additional $140,000 to the Republicans in the first half of 1995, and handed $40,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee last October, just as Dole was pushing Chiquita's interests in Congress. Lindner also contributed $100,000 to Dole's now defunct Better America Foundation, which helped launch his presidential...
...million, plus assorted other payments, and guaranteed him and his wife health care for the rest of their lives. The agreement also called for Health Systems International to buy back as much as half of his common stock, which brought him another $13.3 million. And Greaves signed a generous three-year consulting deal. All told, his exit brought him $18.1 million, equivalent to the average monthly premiums paid by nearly 134,000 subscribers...
...being let go, 7,400 are managers who accepted a company offer of voluntary separation with generous benefits. An additional 4,000 are in operations that AT&T plans to sell, principally some computer-networking operations, and may go with the companies. That, however, leaves about 30,000 people who could be fired outright. They too will be given generous severance. According to AT&T, a typical clerical employee in New Jersey--44 years old, 18 years of service, making $644 a week--would receive more than...
...wife's generous sacrifice promises a renewal of his life," a press release said. "He expects to return to the College at the beginning of the spring term...
...Lafitte's Landing restaurant near Baton Rouge, served thick seafood gumbo, sauteed herb-encrusted duck breast, sauteed speckled trout, fried soft-shell crawfish, salad with vinaigrette dressing and--for those who had room left for it--Mardi Gras cake. Every dish was prepared the old-fashioned Louisiana way, with generous dollops of oil; every bite tasted heavenly. Yet the whole thing, from soup to dessert, was a low-fat meal. That's because Chef Folse had cooked it not with conventional oil but rather with an experimental--and as yet unapproved--synthetic oil called olestra. Olestra is the stealth missile...