Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tyler also takes on a sensitive little boy named Sam. Sam embodies the innocence Otis the owner blusters to simulate. He does things like collect toads and has fantasies of flying which he communicates to Tyler through a silver airplane ring which he calls Sky-Pilot...
...profiting from neither mass support nor an owner rich enough to make player-collecting a hobby, the Orioles shape up as the losers of the new order. Jim Palmer may continue his reign as the best pitcher in baseball, Lee May may drive in 150 runs, and Mark Belanger may keep winning Golden Gloves for the next 20 years, but without Jackson, Garland, and especially, the incomparable Grich, the Orioles are a.500 team at the very best...
...urging of environmentalists and the state's newly created Natural Heritage Program, the Mississippi state legislature in 1975 appropriated $15 million to buy the land from its owner, the Pascagoula Hardwood Co. But the company's stockholders were unwilling to sell. Undaunted, the state joined with the Nature Conservancy, a national environmental group, in another approach. The Conservancy made a tender offer for 75% of the company's stock. This time stockholders in the inactive company accepted, selling their shares for some $13 million. The Conservancy, now in control, promptly liquidated the company, took title...
...Giant Step." Seventy-five thousand fans streamed across the Hackensack meadowlands like cattle crossing the sands of Dee to watch the Giants lose to the Cowboys in the stadium opener. But after 6,657 no-shows last Sunday and the worst whitewashing of the season against the Steelers, Giant owner Wellington Mara and director of player personnel Andy Robustelli decided to cut Arnsparger loose. Despite their 1-6 record, the Jets under new head coach Lou Holtz, who seems secure with a five-year pact, are showing none of the malaise that prompted the Giants' switchover...
Unlike the Giants who have hung tough in the face of the hardest schedule in the NFL, the Jets have shown as much stability as a toupee in high wind. Things got so bad that owner Phil Iselin suffered a heart attack watching Denver trounce his club. The Jets were even euphoric after holding the Colts to only 20 points while former all-pro guard Winston Hill benched himself, missing his first starting assignment since...