Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would think that with the annual failure of his pennant boasts, New York Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner would find the business of baseball risky enough. Think again. Last week Steinbrenner was at the starting gate of Florida's Pompano Park Harness Raceway, sitting in a sulky alongside such sporting celebs as Writer George Plimpton and Yankee Hall of Famer Whitey Ford. "When you become a businessman you become stagnant in some ways," explains Steinbrenner, who owns a trotter and a pacer. "You don't do as many of the exciting and dangerous things you used to do. It was skydiving...
...slipping into New York City to rehearse, and last week she made her off- Broadway debut in Marguerite Duras' 1977 play The Eden Cinema. The setting is French Indochina during the 1930s, and Shields, 20, portrays Suzanne, a fetching 16-year-old who is courted by a rich plantation owner. Director Francoise Kourilsky approached her for the part last year. Shields, who is majoring in French literature and had studied Duras' work at school, readily accepted her first professional nonmovie role. "She is a very strong actress," says Kourilsky of her star, "and takes direction very well." The reviewers' grades...
Meanwhile, Clarkson--the runner up in the ECAC tournament and the owner of a 2-1 season record against the Crimson--was denied a spot...
...same fury, are common sights across Europe these days. Established government-owned -- and frequently dull -- networks are facing a feisty new array of commercial competitors. In Italy the state-owned RAI-TV has been joined by three popular networks run by TV Magnate Silvio Berlusconi, who is also part owner of La Cinq. In West Germany, the government is spending an estimated $10 billion to wire the nation for cable (which is already widespread in countries like Belgium and Holland). German cable viewers can choose from such new channels as the Luxembourg-based RTL-Plus...
Never mind that he gets no newspaper. It would tell him only what he already knows: slow times in the iron-mining business have pushed local unemployment up to around 15%, and a factory owner who is pulling out says Hibbing has gone Communist, by which he means that real estate taxes are too high. As to the weather, Hibbing natives need only gauge the speed with which their nostrils freeze to calculate that the temperature is 19 degrees below zero. There is snow on the ground but nothing too serious. "Just walk where they've plowed," says Travel Agent...