Santana said he was aware that the Mets, whose mainstays are either injured or underperforming, needed a boost.
Although her voice had body and fiber, barely a word she sang was intelligible in the drum-heavy, reverberant din of a fine country band, whose mainstays included Buddy Miller on harmony vocals and electric guitar and her producer, Malcolm Burn, on an array of instruments.
Shares of Shionogi, whose mainstay business is antibiotics, closed down 0.6percentt, at 2,460 yen ahead of the announcement.
In 1972 he established RMM Management, an artist management and booking agency whose mainstay for 25 years was Tito Puente, the timbales master who died last year.
A collaboration with Airbus on composites led to an order to design and build wing parts for the giant A380 jet, launched in 2005.The aerospace venture might seem to sit awkwardly in a company whose mainstay is selling car parts but Mr Stein says there are "soft synergies" between the two divisions.
Some fairly big Saudi food manufacturers already export around the region, such as Almarai, which produces milk and baby formula among other things, and Savola, whose mainstay is edible oils.The government now wants to attract companies that will turn plastics into packaging, aluminium into car parts (or even fully assembled cars) and basic foodstuffs into strong consumer food brands.
And a new police drama for the fall from ABC, "Detroit 1-8-7," is about a homicide unit in the city that has arguably been worst hit by the economic downturn -- a city whose mainstay industry, automobiles, is providing far fewer advertising dollars to the TV networks than during the boom years.
But with little mainstream exposure, the band tour provincial rock clubs and small theatres whose mainstay is tribute bands and 70s nostalgia acts, though they've got enough of a devoted, loyal following for a sustainable career, enough to crowdfund album releases on their own record label.
Dee was also undertaking solo engagements again, which included a cameo on a revival of Zabadak! by the German comedy duo Klaus and Klaus, and was to team up for a while with Marmalade, whose mainstay Sandy Newman produced Dee's only solo album, Unfinished Business (1995).
David Kudla, whose Mainstay Capital advises many auto industry employees, says, "the important thing is for people to know what they're buying".
Boosters of the government's economic package, nonetheless, say the extra money and attention will go a long way toward transforming a region whose economic mainstays are cotton, melons and ornamental knives.
