Word: prospect
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surely buoys the Rockies' owners, led by trucking magnate Jerry McMorris. Three years ago, it seemed a risky prospect to pay $95 million for a new team in a small market. So the owners cried poor and extracted a sweetheart deal from Denver, which owns Mile High Stadium. This year and next, the Rockies pay no rent or maintenance and keep 40% of all concession sales, worth at least $ $10 million. They also have a pinchpenny player payroll, at $8.7 million the lowest in the majors...
What's more troubling than that prospect, 10 professors interviewed by The Crimson say, is that there's little more they can do to stop...
Taft said a fourth offer had been made in the field of plant biology that was still uncertain, but would not give the name of the prospect...
Ozawa and Hata's best prospect, however, may be to bring over more supporters from the L.D.P., where there is still considerable unhappiness with Miyazawa, 73, and worry about the voters' wrath on the reform issue. Former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu announced a 105-member group of L.D.P. legislators who favor reforms. If the Hata group does well, they may just defect...
...sleepy-eyed star and representatives of Spy get together soon, it won't be to swap Separated at Birth stories but to stare one another down in court. Seagal, a sixth-degree black belt in aikido, is steamed by the prospect of a blistering profile written by John Connolly, a former New York City police detective. The article, to be published this week, alleges that Seagal associates with gangsters and that he offered money to ex-intelligence agents to have one of his adversaries entrapped and two others murdered...