Greed the Movie Industry Mockingly Reimagined as Creation
A satirical scripture recounts Hollywood as a greed driven creator, detailing studios, star vehicles, and box office milestones from Disney to Warner. It chronicles blockbusters like Star Wars and E T and critiques merchandising and scheduling excess across film history.
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Greed
Hollywood
Earth
Steven Spielberg
Disney
20Th Century Fox
Universal
Paramount
Gastonia explores COPs for police station financing
Gastonia considers tax exempt certificates of participation to fund a new police station. COPs are backed by the project rather than taxes or utility revenue, letting investors receive their money back with interest if the city defaults. Underwriter Wachovia notes COPs resemble bonds but are not bonds.
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Gastonia
Jay Wilhelmi
Wachovia
North Carolina
Winston-Salem
Denise Bell
Winston- Salem
Final chapter site of college scheduled for auction block
Southern College on Franklin Boulevard faces auction after three years closed under bankruptcy. The three story, 13,000 square foot building, once Miller Motte and later Southern College, will be sold on site at noon with a $2000 cash or cashier's check bid to participate. Proceeds first pay commissions, taxes, mortgage, and debts to IRS and Education Department. Nations Bank holds the mortgage.
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Gastonia
Southern College
Franklin Boulevard
Treat Realty and Auction Inc
Paul Fanning
Asheville
Fanning
Gaston County
Nations Bank
Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Department of Education
Miller-Motte Business College
Gray
Elks Club
Judy
Ronald Reed
Saving starts earlier in twenty somethings retire plan shift
A Wall Street Journal poll shows a majority of Americans in their 20s save for retirement with 61 percent noting savings and about three quarters prioritizing retirement. Twenty somethings also match or exceed older generations in 401(k) participation, with 58 percent versus 52 percent for Baby Boomers.
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The
Wall Street Journal
William E. Chapman II
Kemper Financial Services Inc
Glenn Pape
Avco Co
Albany
N.Y
Pape
Special interest groups pour record 5.1 million into NC campaigns
North Carolina groups spent 5.1 million on political campaigns in the two years before the 1994 election, a 62 percent jump from 1988 and surpassing 1992. Medical interests funded over 10 percent, PACs for seven industries totaled 2.8 million. House seat cost inflation shows 5,063 in 1976 rising to 29,410 in 1994. Spokesman for Brubaker dismisses claims of bought legislation.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Institute For Southern Studies
Bob Hall
Institute
Don Follmer
House
Harold Brubaker
House of Representatives
Follmer
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Rock Hill
S.C
Reeds
Education Department
Gaston College
the College
Gaston
Brevard
Treat. Realty & Auction, Inc
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