Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SEEING ENOS CABELL'S name in a box score for the first time this year didn't set your heart aflutter, then you probably haven't read any of the Bill James Baseball Abstracts. If you don't know who Enos Cabell is, then you don't want to read any further...
...Oscar-night triumph will probably transform Amadeus from a moderately successful film into a big hit. "We now have a chance to make $60 million or better in domestic box office," says Producer Saul Zaentz. "And we have a chance to reach an audience that is afraid of classical music, afraid of Mozart." Orion Pictures has deliberately distributed the film to only a limited number of theaters, hoping to create the feeling that it was special, an "event," in the word of Orion's president of distribution, Robert Cheren...
...head of Electric Boat, the company's sub-building division in Groton, Conn. His word is hardly unimpeachable. In 1983 he fled to his native Greece to avoid being tried on charges of perjuring himself before a grand jury and taking $1.3 million in kickbacks from a subcontractor (see box). Veliotis has produced tapes and company documents that he claims reveal a pattern of waste, corruption and cover-up at General Dynamics. In a tape of one talk he had with Lewis, for example, the chairman suggests that Veliotis reassure James Ashton, a discontented Electric Boat executive, that...
...executives; and $155 for the kenneling of a dog named Fursten while its owner, a General Dynamics executive, attended a company conference at a South Carolina resort. At last week's hearing, Dingell quizzed Lewis about a $571.25 charge for a king-size Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress and box-spring set, which was delivered to the Clayton Inn in suburban St. Louis. "It was for Mr. Veliotis," said Lewis, who explained that the executive said he needed the bed for the times he came to St. Louis for meetings. Added Gorden MacDonald, a General Dynamics executive vice president: "Mr. Veliotis...
While public health authorities worried about additional cases of drug- induced Parkinson's and police pondered how to stop the sale of a drug that was not illegal (see box), medical researchers could hardly contain their excitement. The tragic outbreak in California could hold the key to understanding and treating Parkinson's disease, which afflicts some 350,000 Americans...