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...hear Tabarez coming, for he drives what is known as a "boom car." The auto mechanic from Gardena, Calif., spent $8,000 to install the vehicle's current stereo system, which comprises a deluxe Alpine 7902 compact-disc player, two heavy-duty Orion amplifiers and 32 speakers. His rig can deliver a bone-jarring 144 decibels of sound. "I just got carried away," he admits...
...because of the complex, overlapping rules, the route from nomination to election is difficult to understand and often seems open to manipulation. The new law makes nominating candidates so confusing that some sessions have degenerated into brawls as factions accused one another of exploiting the fuzzy regulations to rig the outcome...
...virtue, they must have had a few inklings of mischief. In the pages of his memoirs, flamboyant linebacker Brian Bosworth, class of '86, is pictured astride a white Corvette above a caption that reads, "Here I am at my $100-per-half-day college job watching an oil rig go up and down . . . and no heavy lifting." A more recent alumnus, Philadelphia Eagles rookie Keith Jackson, thought he was defending the program when he testified, "If a guy, an alumni, comes to you and offers you money, you're going to take it. It's happening everywhere...
...BANKRUPTCY Texas tycoons William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt paid $1 each to ride the New York City subway when they came to town to face a civil suit in U.S. District Court. A federal jury found that the former billionaires, along with their brother Lamar, had tried to rig the silver market in 1980 and assessed them damages of $130 million...
...Dukakis adopted a more combative tone in his trip through California--he promised an administration with "more backbone" than the current one--his campaign also was fighting back with new ads attacking the Republican environmental record. One commericals shows two beachgoers wearing gas masks with an oil rig just offshore...