Word: basses
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...fortunes in the ruins of the savings and loan industry's insolvent institutions. Since 1984 investors have bought 260 failed S and Ls, most of them in the West and Southwest, where thousands of loans to the depressed real estate and oil industries have gone bad. Last week Robert Bass, 40, one of Fort Worth's billionaire Bass brothers and an accomplished takeover artist in his own right, joined the trend. He led a group that agreed to put up $550 million in capital to take over the financially comatose American Savings and Loan Association (assets: $30.8 billion) of Stockton...
This summer I worked as a sports writer for the Richmond Times Dispatch. My assignments were varied: auto races, tennis matches, golf tournaments, minor league baseball games, even a bass fishing tournament (more than 15,000 people filled the Richmond Colisium to view the weigh...
...time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this spring, and Bass Player Brenda Sauter, 29, does free-lance photography jobs. The band is going on its most extensive tour in October, and Sauter has promised herself that life will be only music from then on. The Feelies play by their own rules, but even without a single gambler among them, Sauter...
...stage-festival play," Kupfer found physical leitmotivs to complement the musical ones and give his production a visual as well as a musical unity. Characters do not just stand and sing; they stand and deliver, fighting with fury or embracing with abandon, falling down faint in ecstasy. < As Wotan (Bass John Tomlinson) bids a sorrowing farewell to Brunnhilde (Soprano Deborah Polaski) at the end of Die Walkure, they both collapse facedown on the ground, overcome with emotion...
Furuya had been agonizing over his negotiations with the team's star players: Randy Bass, a bearded American slugger who led the Osaka-based team to victory in the 1985 Japan Series, and Masayuki Kakefu, a fierce third baseman once known as "Mr. Tigers." The ball club sacked Bass last month after he overstayed his leave in the U.S., where his eight-year-old son was being treated for a brain tumor. Kakefu, whose game had suffered because of injuries, wanted to retire. To make matters worse, the Tigers were at the bottom of their six-team league...