Word: ten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leisure activities? The Danbury, Conn., area, community of 158,000 the best place in the U.S. according to a Money magazine survey. Money asked subscribers to weigh 50 factors such as low crime, real estate appreciation, schools, climate, transportation, parks and medical care on a scale of one to ten, and then used Census data to find out which metropolitan areas met those criteria...
...Braves featured in Bull Durham. Durham Businessman Miles Wolff bought the hapless Bulls for $2,500 in 1979. Today the team would sell for about $1 million. The Class AA Harrisburg Senators of Pennsylvania were unloaded for $45,000 in 1980 and are currently valued at some $1.5 million. Ten years ago, even Triple A clubs could be picked up for $50,000. Now they are worth between $2 million and $5 million...
...ninth grade"), but the year before, he had commenced a different kind of education when he was caught driving drunk and trying to outrun a cop. "I can't count the times I've been in jail," he says. "I never had to go to prison, but once, for ten weeks, I had to go to the Monroe jail every Friday night and leave Monday morning." Finally, at about age 17, Randy got busted for breaking and entering. Looking at five years in prison, he had some luck. In his more respectable moments, he had hooked up with a woman...
...Nashville. Finally, in 1985, a Warner Bros. Records exec tuned in on what Hatcher had been hearing for a decade and signed Travis to a singles contract. His first shot was the lilting On the Other Hand, which flopped at first, but his second, 1982, made the Top Ten. Warner signed Travis for an album, which became the 2 million- selling Storms of Life, and On the Other Hand, re-released, went to No. 1. All of a sudden, Travis was on the fast track, with the pedal to the metal. Would a chorus of I Told You So sound...
...Over the course of ten years' trying, you learn a lot," Travis allows. "Even if you're not very smart, you can learn a lot." He has plenty to show for his efforts, like a new $500,000 whirlpool-equipped tour bus, which replaced the converted bread truck and delivery van that used to freight the musicians from gig to gig. He can also take off-road consolation in the property he just bought in Cheatham County, 20 miles out of Nashville, where he and Hatcher share a renovated century-old log cabin...