Word: paid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball has now paid its last respects to the past that has made it so great. Day games at Wrigley have now joined the Ghosts of Baseball Past. Ghosts that call each other "Babe" and "Dizzy," carry bats the size of Redwood trees, smother balls in Vaseline, spit and lard, pitch both games of a doubleheader (what's that?) and take the subway for a World Series game against cross-town rivals...
...fortunes have been flagging. Americans bought only 43,000 of the glitch-prone subcompacts last year -- well below predictions made when the two-door hatchback was first imported from Yugoslavia in 1985. Now a consortium organized by the Mabon, Nugent investment firm in New York City has paid $40 million to gain control of Yugo America and has promised to spend $40 million more for a campaign to tout new models...
...investment wave, driven by Japan's wealth and the power of the yen, has pushed real estate values beyond the reach of many Australian investors and has put Japanese companies in control of 18 major hotels and resorts. EIE Takahashi, which paid $110 million to acquire Sydney's Regent Hotel, has Australian investments valued at $400 million. Daikyo has poured $560 million into Australian property, including the Gold Coast International Hotel and the Brisbane Hilton...
Campaign staffing. Members of Jackson's organization will be integrated into Dukakis' staffs in all 50 states. Jackson will stump every day, sometimes with Dukakis, probably using funds and an airplane paid for by both the D.N.C. and the Dukakis campaign...
...Democrats spent four days bashing Bush and it paid off. Bush is an easy target: a bumbling and boring rich boy with a penchant for looking silly. A man disliked by an amazing percentage of the American electorate, if the latest polls are to be believed. So what are the Republicans...