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...everything about the Senators and staffers investigating Donovan. "He wanted it all," says Sharer. "Marriages, divorces, girlfriends, sex-whatever we could dig up. Schiavone was angry. He felt he was being unfairly maligned and slandered." Sharer claims Schiavone once produced a large bundle of $100 bills as a down payment on the job. In all, Sharer says, he spent 260 "billable hours" working for Schiavone at $250 an hour, services worth a total...
...were some months ago. According to many realtors, there was a glut of private accommodations on the market even before the boycott, forcing widespread price cutting. But some Angelenos hit the jackpot. Chuckled Steve Obeck, who arranged the lease of eight plush residences to East European groups with full payment in advance: "Those homeowners can have their cake and eat it too. They can stay home for the Games...
...Games were not proving to be quite the magnet that some boosters had predicted. Many airlines had already abandoned their hopes of charging full fares on all flights to and from Los Angeles during the Olympics (summer discounts are normally available), and automobile-rental agencies had stopped requiring full payment in advance. Accordingly, in the best tradition of Yankee buoyancy, there were those who predicted that the boycott would strengthen rather than weaken the appeal of the Games. Ventured Walter Hill, president of a firm that makes official Olympic trading cards: "In terms of a collectible, controversy enhances the value...
...arriving at a settlement with Ambrosiano's 120 bank creditors, the Vatican negotiated a clause stating that the payment was being made solely because of moral considerations. The church has always insisted that it has no legal or financial responsibility for the Ambrosiano losses...
...does not crumble. When Walter Ice, entrusted by his mother with the insurance money, gives it to a friend rather than to a bank, the friend absconds with the sum. In desperation. Walter Lee is ready to give up the house in the suburbs, for which the down payment has been made, by selling it back to the local homes association. However, unable to cave in to the representative of the association with his son and mother present. Walter Lee rejects the association's offer. All throughout the performance, Johnson's depiction of his emotional growth is convincing...