Word: rossing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...foot two days before the season began. For the moment he is back in the league, but considering playing overseas. As with many student athletes, there are questions about just how much of an education Lafester Rhodes got in five years at Iowa State. His former C.B.A. coach Art Ross said Lafester struggled to fill out the team's simple application forms. Ross was later told by Iowa State's coach Orr that Lafester "couldn't read past a sixth-grade level...
...pool to have lunch with a man they knew as Sam Perry. As Perry rose to greet the two, he drew a wad of cash from his pocket and peeled off a bill for each of them. "I gave them a hundred bucks, so what?" Perry told Art Ross, a professional coach who was sitting with Perry. "Everybody does it. It keeps them out of trouble...
...York City's top inner-city basketball prospects. Scurry says he and Perry have a close relationship as player and former coach, and on about half a dozen occasions Perry gave him small amounts of "tip money" -- no more than $20 -- merely as a token of affection. Ross, a former C.B.A. coach, agrees: "He does have the kids' best interests at heart...
...When Ross Johnson, flamboyant head of RJR Nabisco, lost his bid for control of the giant food and tobacco company in a $25 billion leveraged-buyout brawl last year, he also lost his job. Last week RJR's new owner, the buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, announced its surprise choice for Johnson's replacement: Louis Gerstner, 47, marketing maven and president of American Express...
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