Word: southlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...
With his move from the Southland to the concrete terrain of Manhattan, Waits is looking to infuse some new blood into his life. No more 2 A.M. cruises down Santa Monica Blvd. with his pals. No more late breakfasts at Duke's. Tom Waits will be jostling with commuters on the crosstown bus or riding the subway late at night, exploring the dark underbelly of another kind of town...
Other imitators of Mesa have already appeared. Southland Royalty of Fort Worth will soon put 50% of its $3 billion in oil and gas holdings into trust. Within a week after that announcement was made, South land's stock rose 46%, to $102. In a variant of Pickens' idea, Houston Oil & Minerals set up a trust combining older wells and an interest in 40 major prospects, mostly how the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of giving the shares to its stockholders, how ever, thereby Oil & Minerals sold them on the open market. The firm thereby raised $60 million, which...
Throughout such comments runs a strange paradox: many executives profess faith in the strength of business in one breath, then voice grave worry about Carter's economic management in the next. Says John P. Thompson, chairman of Southland Corp., an operator and franchiser of convenience food stores that has its headquarters in Dallas: "I think 1978 will be a good year. It is starting off at a higher clip than 1977." Simultaneously, he grouses: "I think the business community to a man reflects the uncertainty he [Carter] has projected...
...words read better than they actually sound in the film, and unlike many of the movie's other aspects, the lyrics are not what you'd call accessible. But the musings of Baskin do ring true, and you suspect that if Baskin is not a native of the Southland, his experience with the L.A. scene has been both thorough and bittersweet...