Word: soaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are the good vibrations of August: soak up some rays on the beach, sip a brew or two and slap a volleyball over a net. A few years ago, Los Angeles beach boys thought it was cool if they were given a couple of six-packs for winning a beach-volleyball tournament. But times have changed. Last year Sinjin Smith, 32, beach-volleyball's top professional, earned nearly $135,000 for a season of bumping, setting and spiking out there on the sand, and he may do even better this year. Predicts Christopher Marlowe, an ESPN sports commentator...
LBOs invariably lose money at first because heavy debt charges soak up their earnings. RJR Nabisco, which went private last December in a record $25 billion buyout, last week reported a staggering $309 million loss for the second quarter. Reason: $1.05 billion in interest and debt expenses. In announcing the loss, RJR Nabisco said its basic food and tobacco operations, which include Nabisco cookies and Winston cigarettes, performed strongly; the company added that its program to sell assets was ahead of schedule. RJR Nabisco has already sold more than $2.5 billion of businesses, including most of its European food operations...
...home the Japanese enjoy the soothing comfort of a hot ofuro, their traditional bath. On the road it's not so easy. Trying to re-create abroad their beloved steaming, full-tub soak, Japanese tourists have acquired a reputation for wreaking havoc on British hotel bathrooms...
...Hungry mobs storming Versailles. Women knitting and jeering in front of the scaffold. Marat murdered in his bath. The zealous Saint-Just railing, "There is no liberty for the enemies of liberty!" And the battalions of Marseilles singing the nation's new anthem: "May the blood of the impure soak our fields...
...layer after layer of sweaters and long johns, long, woolly scarves around their noses and eight pairs of socks, we wear shorts and T-shirts. We may never know the sensual pleasure of entering a warm room and having all the snow on our clothes melt and soak the carpet...