Word: swapping
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...office towers or aboard private Learjets. In such transactions, aides with bulging briefcases and thick black books usually dance attendance near by, ready to proffer, at a nod from the principals, relevant statistics and legal interpretations. But the deal under discussion did not involve a merger or a stock swap but a swap of a different kind:, a trade for a relief pitcher, a third baseman and young outfielder. And, because baseball men are true to the traditions of their anachronistic business, Whitey Herzog, general manager and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bob Kennedy, general manager...
Keyboard Player Brian O'Neal, 24, and his bassist brother Kevin, 19, who wrote Minimum Wage's eleven songs and swap most of the lead vocals, share a gift for flipping stereotypes into comic contortions. Kevin's Respect is part Rodney Dangerfield, part Aretha Franklin. Brian's Johnny Soul'd Out is a black man's declaration of independence to make the kind of music he wants, not what is expected of him ("Johnny soul'd out . . ./ He's into rock 'n' roll and he's given...
...Detroit expects the average auto buyer to trade in a car after three years, but there are plenty of people still driving their '65 Mustangs with 200,000 miles on the clock, almost unaware that it's 1980." Many owners trade Mustang parts and stories at regional swap meets...
...Stamford, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif., two secretaries of the Xerox Corp. use electronic mail computers to swap and file memos from their bosses, thereby reducing to a minute's time a chore that previously would have involved typing letters and sending them coast to coast...
...politician in the traditional sense, yet he is a very good politician," says Robert Strauss, his campaign manager. "He doesn't like to sit around and swap political stories. It's not good relaxation for him. He's not a 'one-of-the-boys' kind. He'd rather have good music on, some of it classical and some of it country-and-western...