Word: gordon
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...director of Wyatt Earp, Lawrence Kasdan (he also wrote the screenplay with Dan Gordon), is obviously of the school that believes all inclusiveness is a reasonable trade-off for insight. Or maybe, like a lot of literary biographers these days, he can't bear to omit any of his research. But his approach prevents Wyatt Earp from developing a compelling dramatic arc, and it doesn't help a rather glum and withdrawn Kevin Costner make the eponymous protagonist into a dynamic or even very attractive figure. Mostly he is fate's pawn, grimly enduring one damn thing after another...
...enthusiastic ambassadors for the group's wines. One reason: anyone who owns at least 100 shares is invited to an annual celebration party at Chalone to feast on oysters and salmon -- and sample freely the group's products. "These people are absolutely rabid Chalone fans," says company spokeswoman Sally Gordon of the 1,200 shareholders who showed up for this year's affair. "You can't buy brand loyalty like that." Investor Peter Truce, 43, says he is not worried about the stock: "It's not a major part of my portfolio. It's a fun part of my portfolio...
Maryellen Gordon is still fumbling. When the Manhattan freelance writer opened a checking account at Manufacturers Hanover bank six years ago, she could keep as small a balance as she liked for a fee of just $5 a month, and there was no charge for using the automated teller machines. Then Manufacturers Hanover merged with Chemical Bank in 1992, after which Gordon had to keep at least $3,000 in the bank to avoid being charged each time she used the ATM system. Enough was enough. Earlier this year she took her money to a credit union where...
Whether they're putting their paychecks in or taking cash out, Americans like Gordon are increasingly feeling the pinch as U.S. banks raise their fees for everything from bounced checks to automated cash transactions. To recoup profits lost to bad loans as well as to aggressive rivals like money-market funds that offer their own checking accounts, commercial banks nearly doubled their service charges between 1985 and 1992, according to the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (USPIRG), a Washington-based consumer lobby. Even the victims of bad checks must now routinely shell out fees for the pain of having been...
...Says Jan Shipps, a religious historian at Indiana University-Purdue University: "It's the steering of a middle course." That strict patrolling of dissent is likely to continue under the new leadership; it may even deepen. Next in the line of succession after Hunter are Benson's chief counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley, who will turn 84 this month, and Thomas Monson, 66. After them may come Boyd K. Packer, 69, an ardent promoter of doctrinal purity...