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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prey. When the anglers returned to shore, crowds gasped in excitement as judges weighed the catch and flashed the results on a digital screen. The winner, Robert Byrd of Zwolle, La., brought in 60.7 lbs. of bass in just three days. His prize: $33,000 in cash and merchandise, part of a total purse...
...contest is part of an even bigger bonanza for B.A.S.S. Inc., a Montgomery, Ala.-based company that stages the professional bass-fishing tour and dominates this arcane but fast-growing sport (estimated total U.S. bass anglers: 26 million). B.A.S.S. sets the tournament rules, controls lucrative - sponsorships, handles the marketing and covers the events in its own array of periodicals. The company promotes its contests with a weekly cable-TV show, The Bassmasters, and operates a thriving network of 2,000 amateur fishing clubs...
...complicated the nearly $20 billion Time-Warner merger. Chris-Craft might have done so by delaying the completion of the merger, as it did last year in Warner's acquisition of Lorimar Telepictures. Both Chris-Craft and Warner made concessions in reaching an agreement to no longer disagree. As part of the deal, Chris-Craft chairman Herbert Siegel will resign as a Warner director. Time Inc., the parent company of TIME's publisher, and Warner have scheduled meetings for June 23, when shareholders of each company will vote on the merger...
Canepa has good reason to boast. His company, Concept Trailers, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., builds trucks for transporting race cars, crews, tools and supplies in classy comfort. His 50-ft. trailers, which sell for an average $275,000, hauled 30 of the 33 cars that were to take part in Sunday's Indianapolis...
With breaking news, TIME's correspondents often have only a few hours to report a story. But in many ways senior correspondent Edwin M. Reingold has been preparing for the better part of two decades for the Business section's special report this week on Japanese trade practices and growing protectionist sentiment in the U.S. A native of Philadelphia, Reingold has followed Japan's rising economic star ever since 1969, when he was first assigned to TIME's Tokyo bureau as bureau chief. Back then, he recalls, most of what he knew about Japan was "World War II propaganda...