Word: fowlerize
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...deal was sealed on the telephone. Greg Larson, who is based in Jacksonville, learned that the Utica Blue Sox team , in the Class A New York- Penn League, was for sale for $70,000. The seller required a swift decision. Larson called his colleague, Bob Fowler, in Orlando. Fowler said, "Hell yes, we'll buy it." Today Fowler recollects, "In ten minutes, overcome by the adventure, we had done...
...draft pick, knows the temptations. A high school star from rural Sorrento, La., he reportedly told prosecutors that after he agreed to attend Tulane, a former assistant coach gave him a shoe box containing $10,000 in cash, and that he had received weekly envelopes from Coach Ned Fowler containing $100 stipends. Such payments, while not criminal, violate N.C.A.A. rules. Fowler and two of his assistants (who were not involved in the point shaving or any of the drug incidents) resigned last week after disclosure of the weekly payments...
...company's music director, James Levine, was a rich international assemblage that included the splendid Bulgarian soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow as the gentle maiden Elsa, the fiery Hungarian soprano Eva Marton as the scheming Ortrud and the hearty Danish bass Aage Haugland as King Henry the Fowler. Most notable of all, as Lohengrin, the mysterious knight of the Holy Grail, it featured Placido Domingo on one of his rare forays into the German repertoire. What looked at first like a mismatch turned out to be a gamble that paid off handsomely...
...unconventional method of simply spreading a dozen or more books in front of me, saying. "Take them along, read any that interest you and ignore the rest. "From Francis learned to love oddities like Tristram Shandy's My Uncle Toby and to enjoy the wit and wisdom of Henry Fowler's Modern English Usage...
...ever, marked the beginning of the FCC's major restructuring of telephone charges in the wake of the divestiture. The overall goal is to transfer as much of the phone system's costs as possible to the people who use the specific services. Said FCC Chairman Mark Fowler of the rulings: "We are beginning to eliminate the crazy-quilt pricing that prevailed in a predivestiture world. My hope is that in the next two to three years we will see long-distance rates reduced...