Word: regular
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Castro's second build-up campaign is aimed at the Cuban physique. At 60, the Cuban leader is on a health jag, exhorting his people to exercise regularly, participate in sports and shed unnecessary weight. Two years ago, to establish his credibility in an antismoking campaign, Castro gave up his trademark cigars. But the results of the health campaign have been mixed. Officials claim that tobacco consumption dropped 23% in the campaign's first year, but not all Cubans have become converts to clean living. On the compulsory Saturday workday, a foursome of male goldbrickers sharing a bottle of bootleg...
...poker game. Up to 13 players can be held over from the previous year; the rest are purchased on draft day. The players -- nine pitchers, six infielders, five outfielders, two catchers and a designated hitter -- compete, in aggregate, in eight statistical categories over the course of the 162-game regular season. The winning team is the one with the highest totals in each category: batting average, home runs, runs batted in, stolen bases, wins, saves, earned-run average, and the ratio of hits plus walks to innings pitched...
What makes these performances even more enjoyable is Sagal's intimate staging and inventive set. Foregoing the Loeb's cavernous regular stage, Sagal built a new set where the front section of seats used to be, surrounding the stage on three sides with seats. During Arnolphe's "asides," Oleson comes right up to people in the front rows and talks directly to them. The high degree of interaction makes the impact of the performances greater than "normal" staging would have...
...blast," said Brown, the regular first-baseman, who was seen waving from the outfield and asking centerfielder Hanya Bluestone where to stand in her right-field debut...
Ultimately, though, Texaco may pay a heavier price for its bold gambit. For one thing, all of Texaco's regular creditors have been bludgeoned by the Chapter 11 device; their goodwill is important to the oil firm's longer-range survival. Among others, Texaco owes Chase Manhattan Bank $2.95 billion and Manhattan's Bankers Trust and Manufacturer's Hanover Trust an additional $1.5 billion. Outwardly, many of Texaco's creditors and lenders are serene about the situation. But at one major Manhattan bank with several hundred million dollars' worth of Texaco corporate notes on deposit, a senior executive admits...