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...claim that each of the five had merely taken proper steps to help a constituent, special counsel Robert Bennett declared, "These activities went beyond the norm of constituent service." In helping Keating, who awaits trial for defrauding investors in his defunct California-based Lincoln Savings & Loan and in its parent, American Continental Corp., the Senators, Bennett charged, had ignored the welfare of many more constituents -- including the taxpayers, who will spend some $2 billion because of what he called "the looting of Lincoln." Keating had contributed nearly $1.4 million to the Senators' various campaign affiliations...
...first worry: the Time Inc. Magazine Co. is one of the largest direct- mail generators in the world. Since the proliferation of what its detractors call junk mail is clearly controversial, why call attention to a practice in which our parent company is deeply engaged...
...Proud Parent: Some beaming mom or pop settles in next to me and immediately begins to chatter away. Before long, I must answer scores of questions on my SAT scores, my social life and "exactly how I got into Harvard." I then must endure scores of detailed stories about their little pumpkins...
...Obnoxious Child: Even worse, and just as likely, is for the proud parent to plunk their kid down next to me. "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this nice young man," they say. But what they mean is "Oh, look, you can sit here next to this sucker...
...Last June he sold the Star, a supermarket tabloid that he launched in 1974 at a cost of $12 million, for $400 million in cash and preferred stocks from the parent of the rival National Enquirer. He is retooling other properties, including his costliest, TV Guide, for which he paid nearly $3 billion in 1988. Since then, circulation has dropped 7%, to 15.8 million, and ad pages have dwindled...