Word: bowlful
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Pennzoil's bankruptcy counsel, Michael Crames, insists that Texaco will not be able to borrow, offer collateral, sign leases or enter new lines of business without court permission. Says Crames: "Texaco is going to have to live in a goldfish bowl." As a member of Texaco's soon-to-be-formed unsecured-creditor committee, Pennzoil will have access to some of Texaco's sensitive documents and will be in a position to demand many more. Says Chairman Liedtke: "We want to make sure their money is spent wisely. We want to know everything." Texaco executives have said they will refuse...
...Those are skirmishes in the parking lot. Those are not the Super Bowl fight," the civil rights leader said between bursts of applause...
Those schools that get caught paying their players over the table are put on probation. Those that do it anyway but don't get caught go to bowl games and reap lots of profits from ticket sales...
...establishment of professional minor leagues would also leave the rest of the nation free to return to real amateur college athletics. It would mean that the Michigans and UCLAs and Ohio States of the world could play in the College Super Bowl or the Final Four for real money while the Harvards and Holy Crosses would play for school pride...
Readers of London's Daily Mail were appalled last week to read that a goldfish nicknamed George had leaped out of his bowl and taken a bite out of 12-year- old Amanda Baker's hand. A photograph showed the shaken girl holding up her bandaged limb. The killer goldfish, the paper explained, was the result of an attempt to breed a male piranha with a female goldfish. The same day the , Guardian reported that the world's first photograph, some 200 years old, had been located in a Japanese cave...