Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becoming a rare breed. In August the company paid $300 million to purchase Britain's Island Records, a pioneer in reggae and progressive rock. Last week Polygram said it reached an agreement to swallow an even bigger target: A&M Records, the label founded by Tijuana Brassist Herb Alpert and promoter Jerry Moss. The price, which was not disclosed, was estimated at as much as $500 million...
...Alpert and Moss started the company with a $200 investment 27 years ago in the garage of the trumpeter's home in suburban Los Angeles. A&M, with sales of $300 million last year, has a stable of recording stars that includes Janet Jackson, Suzanne Vega, Toni Childs and Sting. Says Alpert, 54, who will continue to help run A&M after the merger is completed: "We'll have more visibility and more muscle...
...Alpert said that he had not heard about the mice in the North Yard dorms and said that he has not received any reports of rodent epidemics since December, when the University replaced its Yard trash cans with rodent-proof ones...
...Things have improved greatly since we installed the receptors in the Yard," Alpert said...
...Alpert said his department provides both traditional and more humane mouse traps...