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...Bud Selig, the affable car dealer who owns the Milwaukee Brewers, has been serving as de facto commissioner since September. "We'll have a commissioner," Selig insists. "We have a search committee in progress. But it's hard to say when." A shrewd guess is not until there is a new baseball labor agreement. The owners fear that a new commissioner -- no matter how limited his formal mandate -- would try to avert a spring-training lockout in 1994 as Vincent did in 1980. "The owners have decided that they get along better without a commissioner," theorizes the unrepentant Vincent...
...hedonistic sensorium, if you do it right," said Cantabrigian Bud Struggle, who describes the chocolate experience as a "direct taste bud-brain connection...
...expected to double this year. Even the Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down. Under new SEC rules, companies must provide, in their annual report to shareholders, some value for the stock options granted to executives. "Executives have been praying for this issue to cool down," says Graef ("Bud") Crystal, a leading compensation consultant. "But it's not, and they're going to stay on the hot seat...
...wide-body jet. The Seattle firm, however, thinks the airline industry is ready for a new generation of carriers, holding up to 800 passengers, vs. a current capacity of 420. Now Boeing has acknowledged seeking European partners for the venture, in the process perhaps nipping a competitor in the bud. If feasibility studies prove promising, the first superjumbos could go wheels-up within 10 years...
Jeffrey Ferguson, race relations tutor in AdamsHouse, said that with tutors who are aware ofhouse dynamics, "a lot of things that become mediaincidents at Harvard could probably be nipped inthe bud...