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...stats: he has played, by his own count, on more than 400 albums, and last August scored as Down Beat magazine's best acoustic bass player. Or you can hear it for yourself: Haunted Heart, a new album with his Quartet West, shows Haden, now 55, at his lyrical peak. It is a kind of musical-dream autobiography, part funky and part rhapsodic, that evokes the style of his early Los Angeles days as well as the mythic mood of vintage L.A., the film- noir city. Chinatown. Chandlertown...
...PEAK NUMBER OF FEMALE CANDIDATES...
Fischer, the eternally callow prodigy, has been forgiven much in the past thanks to the splendors of his chess; at his peak he was, many experts believe, the greatest player ever. So, apart from speculations about whether he will wind up in some federal slammer, spitting on the guards, the big question as the games in Yugoslavia began was, How good is Bobby...
Japan has been facing one of its most serious economic downturns since World War II, with the stock market trading at less than half its peak value of late 1989 and investors convinced that the government would do little to stop the slide. But last week officials announced an unprecedented $86 billion rescue package. Amounting to 2.3% of GNP, the bailout will increase public works programs, assist small- and medium-size businesses and provide tax incentives for industrial investment. The government also promised to ease stock-purchase regulations and help banks sell real estate they now hold as collateral...
...would lay off 5,000 of its remaining 13,000 workers. The Massachusetts-based company had been piling up losses for years after missing out on the personal computer revolution. Big losers included the family of the late An Wang, who founded the company in 1951. From a peak of $1.6 billion, the family's stock dwindled in value to $50 million before the Chapter 11 filing. "We simply ran out of time," said Wang chairman Richard Miller, who arrived from General Electric in 1989 to try to rescue the company. Miller said the firm will now focus on providing...