Word: bama
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...been talking up UAB’s Blazers for months. But not any more so because I hail from Bama than because I’d pay to watch them play...
...surreal two weeks. After eight- to 10-hour rehearsal days, we went to the beach, line dancing clubs, a luau—a different party for every night. Tyson foods sponsored a prom for us. Hundreds of down-home ’bama boys were interviewed as possible dates. I don’t know how effective the scanning process was for the final 50—while every guy was definitely hot, Utah’s date didn’t show up and Florida’s reeked of Bacardi...
...Paula Marshall-Chapman, 47, CEO of the Bama Companies, a $140 million Tulsa, Okla., frozen-dough-and-pie concern that started in her grandmother's kitchen in 1927, the road to success has been studded with familial potholes. When Marshall-Chapman took over from her father in 1984, her two brothers were furious that they would not be involved in running the show. The business was changed from a corporation to a partnership, with Marshall-Chapman named general partner. Her parents Lilah and Paul Marshall took their equity out of the business to live on. The structure of the general...
...father saw me as the most likely person to take over the business," says Marshall-Chapman, and she hasn't done badly at all. Bama employs 750 people and has about a 10% annual growth in revenues. But she acknowledges that "my brothers were shocked that they weren't going to be as involved in the business. If we had all just sat down and discussed everyone's needs and expectations, we might have been able to structure things differently and without such hurt feelings." Marshall-Chapman is in the process of buying out the minority shares...