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David A. Vise; Steve Coll. "The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1988. HighBeam Research. 23 Oct. 2012 <http://www.highbeam.com>.
David A. Vise; Steve Coll. "The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire." The Washington Post. 1988. HighBeam Research. (October 23, 2012). http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1274918.html
David A. Vise; Steve Coll. "The Rales Brothers Play for Big Stakes; Little-Known Area Family Builds an Industrial Empire." The Washington Post. Washingtonpost Newsweek Interactive. 1988. Retrieved October 23, 2012 from HighBeam Research: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1274918.html
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In the mid-1970s, a teen-ager nicknamed "Mitty" Rales developed a reputation for his go-for-broke batting style in the Montgomery County Men's Softball League. "He would either hit a home run or strike out," a former teammate recalled last week. "He would always go for the home runs and swing for the fences."
Today, the game is billion-dollar takeovers, not softball, but 32-year-old Mitchell Rales and his 37-year-old brother Steven are still swinging for the fences.
The Rales brothers, who run one of the largest and least understood family enterprises in the Washington area, have launched a $2.5 billion hostile bid for St. Louis-based Interco Inc., known for its Converse …
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