1.   Both SBC Warburg and the Bass family are investing in a risky and expensive business, since prices for fine art can fluctuate sharply, depending on the economy.

2.   After Taylor left, Bass began to take a much more active role in investing, said people close to the Bass family.

3.   All are graduates of Stanford Business School, and they have long-standing ties to the fabulously rich Bass family of Texas, which has myriad investments nationwide.

4.   But she said state law prohibits her from saying whether the division ever had contact with the Bass family.

5.   For three generations, the Bass family prospered, looking out for the workers and looking out for Wilton.

6.   He is best known for managing the investments of the Bass family of Texas.

7.   Moore has been under pressure from a shareholder group led by the wealthy Bass family of Texas to improve its performance and its share price.

8.   Officials for the Bass family could not be reached for comment.

9.   On a more subtle, political level, Bass Performance Hall guarantees the domination of Fort Worth cultural life by the Bass family for at least another generation.

10.   Schwarz, whose nostalgic designs have made him royal architect to the Bass family, proposed an updated brick-and-glass version of a college field house.