Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...autumn tour promises to be somewhat more comfortable--even lucrative--which is a welcome addition for a group which in the past just broke even and played more for its own amusement than any financial gains...
...with family members, complaining he had developed a heart arrhythmia made worse by dealing with them. To identify any "urgent and important" letters they might send, he asked them to draw a red line under the postage stamp. When they used it to mark the letter in which they broke the news of his father's suicide, Ted wrote back complaining that the message didn't merit a red line. From that point he retreated even more firmly into the Montana woods, his books and himself...
...reluctant programmers at Fox to pick it up. Over the years Cannell has mounted an incredibly wide range of dramas--everything from Wiseguy to the less cerebral The A-Team and Silk Stalkings. Initial ratings for Profit were weak, but Cannell thinks he can maintain his track record. "I broke all the rules with The Rockford Files,'' he says, referring to his first big hit. "I had an antihero the networks hated for being a coward." The Rockford Files ultimately hit No. 1--and Jim Rockford never looked as sexy in a suit as Jim Profit...
...grew up in a small town on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, the youngest of five children of a prosperous canned-goods broker. When he was 16, both parents died within six months of each other, leaving the family broke and its house repossessed. Rouse parked cars to make money and eventually got a law degree by taking classes at night. At age 25, he and a friend borrowed $20,000 to form a mortgage-banking firm that became the Rouse Co., one of the nation's biggest developers of houses, apartments and shopping centers...
...unglamorous fashion, the Crimson finally broke into the runs column off a walk in four pitches to freshman Hal Carey driving Levy home and bringing the score...