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Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...view from your office so nice that you should be charged admission? In Hartford, companies are being asked to pay a voluntary fee of $10-per-window for the privilege of gazing upon the vintage architecture and serene greenery of the Old State House building, which is now home to a museum. Wilson Faude, the statehouse's executive director, came up with the view tax as a fund- raising gimmick. The total panes with a view...
Faude sent bills to the occupants of those offices last week, and already two companies have paid up: a savings bank (94 panes) and an insurance firm (twelve). How will Faude enforce his tax on neighbors who would rather view for free? He jokes, "The next time the window washers come around, somebody may find their view has been painted...
Marianne Gingrich, whose husband Newt is the House Minority Whip who initiated the Wright inquiry, is herself being scrutinized for her role in promoting Gingrich's book Window of Opportunity. Part book (co-authored by a science fiction writer), part polemic, part tax shelter, Window lost money for its investors, but earned the Gingriches $12,018 in royalties and Mrs. Gingrich $11,500 in salary. When asked about this at a press conference last week, Marianne stomped out in tears...
...business. Many superstar brokers now make their own telephone pitches to court new clients, and brew their own coffee, after losing the assistants who handled those chores. Even senior partners are being laid off when their sales volume dwindles. "Loyalty and all that kind of stuff go out the window," says an executive of a major Chicago firm that is trimming 10% of its staff. "We're looking at whether we want to carry their health- and life-insurance costs. And when several brokers go, that's one less secretary...