Word: southland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southland Commercial Real Estatein Diamond Bar, Calif., sued Epstein and one ofhis companies, Western Business Investors. Thecompany president, Charles Chinea, charged thatEpstein and his partner, Klein, repeatedly misledthem about payments on a $140,000 commission owedto his company...
...liberalization. We're talking not about an investment boom that's going to happen, but one that's under way now." Many American companies with a foothold in Mexico's market of 88 million people have ambitious expansion plans there regardless of NAFTA's fate. Dallas-based Southland Corp. operates 180 7-Eleven stores with joint-venture partners in Mexico and will open 20 more by the end of the year. Wal-Mart opened a block- long supercenter in Mexico City in September, along with five Sam's Clubs warehouse stores. The Arkansas-based company is completing a second supercenter...
When the Los Angeles Kings advanced to the Stanley Cup finals last month, this touched off...well, riots isn't the word to use...but a lot of, shall we say, good-natured celebration in the Southland...
...might be the 1960s migration to the Sun Belt, which brought hockey-playing people from glacier regions like Minnesota to the Southland. It also could be the corrupting influence of TV. Last year, Jason Priestly's character played hockey on "Beverly Hills 90210". This year, roller hockey booms. That might not be a coincidence...
...southland people get Pulitzer prizewinning news from the Los Angeles Times. San Franciscans rely on the clubhouse newspaper, the Chronicle ("comical" to locals), whose existence depends almost solely on Herb Caen, 75, America's longest-running columnist (circa 1938), and whose chief function is the nurturing of San Francisco's insatiable narcissism. The Chron's competitor, Hearst's Examiner, is hardly better, specializing in the scandalous activities of local politicians...