Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beans") Reardon, who came up to the National League in 1926 and called balls and strikes until he retired in 1949. So small that he "had to stand twice in the same spot to make a shadow," Beans compensated for his lack of size with the belligerence of a bantam. "To be a good umpire," he states, "you first of all must have guts because you're going to have trouble ... If the Pope was an umpire, he'd still have trouble with the Catholics...
...Games neared, the debate focused more on the Coe-Ovett matchup. Relations between the two are chilly, perhaps because they are so different. The affable, talkative Coe is the people's choice. A 5-ft. 9¼-in., 129-lb. bantam, Coe emphasizes speed over endurance in his training. Ovett is intense and taciturn, especially with the press. He does little but eat, sleep and train; in an average week he will turn in 160 or more miles in contrast to Coe's 50 to 70. After he shattered Coe's mile mark, however, Ovett did permit...
...company's 50 m.p.g. Mini Metro model being introduced this summer. The droop nose helps save gas by reducing aerodynamic drag, but the real secret behind the experimental ECV lies underneath-a novel three-cylinder engine. The ECV body, about the size of a Ford Pinto, is bantam weight. Bereft of bumpers and stripped of all interior furnishings except for the drivers seat, the test car tips the scales at 1,320 lbs. The body is constructed largely of lightweight aluminum and plastic. The windows are made of Perspex, a plastic that is lighter than glass...
There are about 11 million companies in the U.S. classified as small. Of these, 3.4 million do $5 million or less in business each year and employ fewer than 100 workers. Nonetheless, bantam businesses contribute a surprising 43% to the gross national product. Between 1969 and 1976, according to David Birch, urban studies professor at M.I.T., two-thirds of the economy's new jobs came from firms with 20 or fewer employees. At least half of the nation's private work force is in some way dependent on small business. General Motors, for example, has 55,000 small...
...watching spawn swim downstream to salmon. An idea is "developed" by film executives, a writer is recruited to amplify the notion into a novel, and then the book is converted to celluloid. The trend has become widespread: Simon & Schuster Editor David Obst recently moved his offices to Hollywood, and Bantam Books has established a film-production company in Los Angeles. Its acquisitions editor Charles Bloch regards the cinema-literary process as "a sophisticated methodology of people who have an interest in both books and movies so that they can put two and two together and get five...