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...journal that comes out ten times a year and boasts a circulation of 540,000. The publication offers insider advice on such topics as trolling, plastic worms and fish hideouts. Bassmaster's most famous subscriber is George Bush, who calls it his favorite magazine. With a loyal readership and scant competition, Bassmaster charges advertisers $20,000 a page, and posted ad sales of $12 million last year. The company as a whole had revenues of $30 million in 1988, double the level of five years earlier...
Only a year ago, Caperton, an insurance executive and political novice, was known to a scant 3% of West Virginia's voters. Flanked by his wife Dee, Caperton lit out for the hollows in a van, spent $3.2 million of his own money and ran away with last November's election, upsetting powerful three-term Republican incumbent Arch Moore...
...show of force, however, the recovery drive has made little tangible progress. Exxon estimated that it had cleaned a scant 3,300 ft. of beach, leaving 304 miles of oil-covered shoreline to go in Prince William Sound alone. The company claimed that it would pick up the remaining seaborne oil within the next two weeks and scrub all the fouled shoreline before cold weather arrives in September. But Alaskan officials grimaced with skepticism. "Sounds too rosy," said Dennis Kelso, Alaska's environmental conservation commissioner. "Look at Exxon's track record till now -- too little, too late, and too many...
THERE are also notable omissions. Ackermann makes scant mention of the problems she faced as Cambridge's first woman mayor--perhaps because woman councillors were commonplace by the time she took office...
Take the case of Reggie Ford. As a 6-ft. 4-in. senior at Marion High School in rural South Carolina three years ago, Reggie was an All-State center. More than a dozen universities salivated over his 22-points-a-game average. They paid little mind to his scant 2.0 grade-point average. It was Bob Battisti, coach of Northwestern Oklahoma State University, who persuaded Reggie to attend his school. What won him over, said Reggie, was Battisti's promise that a tutor would be available to help him through the difficult academic times ahead. "I knew I wasn...