Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coach Steve Pike has finished his early season lineup juggling and settled on a starting group that includes three 1981 All-New Englanders: both co-captains, Dave Fasi and Rich Guerra, and junior Steve Munatones, an all-East honorable mention last year...
What's more, Weaver's Orioles were never a rich man's club, dependent like New York on the free-spending ways of some corporate owner to nab a couple of headline grabbers. They built from the ground up, extensively using their farm system. The Orioles had stars, but they were first and foremost a team. Weaver always had use for every one of his players, down to their lowliest substitute, producing one cohesive, interlocking unit, rather than a sprawling anarchy of 25 disparate individuals...
Under Allied's takeover offer of $1.9 billion, some Bendix shareholders will emerge rich. Anyone who bought Bendix stock near its 1982 low of $45 per share could already have netted a windfall profit by selling out early to Martin Marietta at $75 per share. Before trading was halted last week, Bendix stock had fallen back to $57.50. Other shareholders, however, who wait to sell their stock to Allied, will be paid not in cash but in a combination of Allied stock and other securities, amounting to $85 per share. If the value of Allied stock now falls...
...death in 1791 at age 35 is a rich source of drama and speculation. The man whom Joseph Haydn unhesitatingly acknowledged as his superior struggles against a fatal fever to complete his last composition. The D Minor Requiem is written for Count Franz Walsegg-Stuppach, who wormed a place in history by secretly commissioning the work in order to pass it off as his own. Several bars of the Lacrymosa are probably the last notes Mozart ever wrote. The requiem was completed by his student Franz Süssmayr...
...idyllic Hawaiian background makes the Shields family's troubles all the more startling. Mynah birds scold in the trees; the children live in the Big House; their father is rich and respected; their mother is beautiful and indulged. Anna appears at one dance wearing a cape made from thousands of gardenias. Her children know that she is somewhat different and worship her for it: "She is not the kind who bandages cuts, Lily thought. She is not like other mothers, who make grocery lists and wear undergarments. Other mothers do not forget that you go back to school...