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...golf-mad Japan, the biggest swinger of all may be industrialist Minoru Isutani, whose Cosmo World Corp. controls more than 10 Japanese courses and is rapidly developing sites in the U.S. and Europe. Last week Isutani scored the investment equivalent of a hole in one when he agreed to pay an estimated $900 million for the Pebble Beach Co., which operates four golf courses on California's Monterey Peninsula that rank among the world's most scenic. The deal makes Pebble Beach the jewel of Isutani's international golf empire, which includes courses under development in Los Angeles, Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTMENTS: Making a Hole in One | 9/17/1990 | See Source »

Yuppie shows are easy to spot. CBS's Everything's Relative revolves around two brothers who share a New York apartment and a nagging mother. One (John Bolger) is a blue-collar swinger; the other (Jason Alexander), a buttoned-down yuppie who does consumer research for products like sushi-on-a-stick. In NBC's My Two Dads, two bachelors get joint custody of a twelve-year-old girl, whom one of them -- no one knows which -- has fathered. Again, they are a contrasting pair: Greg Evigan is a free-spirited artist, Paul Reiser a compulsive financial analyst who describes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Yup, Yup and Away! | 10/5/1987 | See Source »

...some of those in attendance were not concerned with perfecting their swing ability so much as perfecting the moves of a swinger...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Swinging Into Action | 4/24/1987 | See Source »

Septuagenerian Swinger...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: class cuts | 11/1/1986 | See Source »

...little droll, he was "hitterish," and Reggie's interest extended to sending Joyner bats and calling him in Edmonton (home of the AAA Trappers). Again Joyner accumulated only a dozen homers for the season, but proceeding directly to a winter league in Puerto Rico, the smoothest left-hand swinger on the island hit 14 more in 54 games. Without a break, he continued on to the major leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Reggie and the Rookie | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

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