Bill Cosby
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The Savage Way recounts the most important challenges and opportunities of Frank Savages lengthy career in business and finance, including investing in Africa, traveling and working in Japan, parallels between success in sailing and in business, and the famous scandals of Enron. This is a personal memoir on the level of Bloomberg by Bloomberg, opening with Enron, Franks mother as his inspiration, his travels and experience investing in Africa, studying...
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Cosby volume 25
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Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.
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Cosby volume 1
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After Hilton encourages Erica and Griffin to "take risks and pursue their dreams," they do just that and the results become Hilton's nightmares. Erica quits her high-paying job at the law firm, and moves home to save money and study to become a chef. Griffin, on the other hand, moves into the Lucas attic after a business deal goes wrong.
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Cosby volume 20
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English
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It's April 15th and Hilton hasn't even started working on his taxes, a fact he wants to make sure Ruth doesn't discover.
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Cosby volume 6
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Pauline is absolutely thrilled that, after years of being the single friend, she has finally become a couple with her new boyfriend Gregory, a self-absorbed, self-proclaimed genius who disturbs Hilton. When she decides to dump him because he's too uptight, Ruth thinks that Hilton is really the one to blame and sends him off to remedy the situation.
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Cosby volume 18
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With Ruth's birthday coming up, Erica suggests that Hilton buy her something other than a sweater, which has been his gift every year for the past ten years. In an attempt to be more original, Hilton paints a plate for Ruth at a pottery store.
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Cosby volume 13
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English
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Hilton finds that his life insurance is practically worthless, so he tries to shape up to pass a physical for a new policy.
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Cosby volume 11
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English
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Ruth surprises Hilton when she enrolls him in tap-dancing classes as a birthday gift. He skips the classes, but tells Ruth that he is making remarkable progress. When Ruth announces that she is going to attend the dance recital, Hilton must take a crash course in fancy footwork or risk having his deception exposed.
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Cosby volume 16
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English
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A wealthy man Hilton once helped at the airport bequeaths him a boat. Despite Ruth's insistence that he doesn't have the stamina or the money to support a boating hobby, Hilton persists.
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Cosby volume 17
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English
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It's Valentine's Day, and when Hilton realizes that he has bought Ruth a scarf that she already has, its back to the drawing board. When she mentions that she'd love to see singer Jeffrey Osborne, who's appearing at the Steinway Club that night, a desperate Hilton says that he has tickets and was going to surprise her.
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Cosby volume 9
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English
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The nude model from Hilton's art class finds her clothes missing after class. It's Hilton to the rescue, not knowing her irate husband has the wrong impression and is hot on their trail.
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Cosby volume 23
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English
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Pauline's boyfriend leaves her for a 26-year-old aerobics instructor. She's so depressed that Ruth decides to set her up on a blind date with Richard, her Spanish instructor.
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Cosby volume 1
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Hilton has a nightmare that he's been fired from the airline, and his wife Ruth reminds him that it already happened to him three weeks ago along with 10,000 others. Ruth tells her friend Pauline that it's tough having Hilton around the house all day - he's trying to fix things that aren't broken.
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Cosby volume 15
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Despite Ruth's insistence that family and friends should never work together, Hilton goes to work for Griffin, narrating children's stories. He just can't refuse the temptation for some creative rewriting, and Hilton puts his own spin on some classic kids' tales. Will he have his poetic license revoked?
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Cosby volume 19
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English
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Pauline tries her hand at playwriting for a course she's taking at the community center. Following Hilton's advice about writing something "real," she turns out a thinly-disguised comedy about the Lucas family.
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Cosby volume 4
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When Griffin's non-stop eating starts to get on Hilton's nerves, and Hilton's non-stop opinion-giving begins to get to Griffin, the two challenge each other to a 24-hour contest to see which man has more self-control.
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Cosby volume 9
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English
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When Griffin tries to back out of a lucrative out-of-state concert gig because of a flying phobia, Hilton vows that he will get Griffin on the plane no matter what it takes.
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Cosby volume 2
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Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruth tells him he's being childish.