Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trading in options, currently the hottest speculative arena, will be another of Williams' concerns. Options are the right to buy or sell stocks at a specified price within a set period of time. Currently they are traded mainly on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, but they have also spread to the American Exchange and are headed for the N.Y.S.E. The SEC has approved a pilot program in Philadelphia, where options and the stocks that they are based on are traded on the same exchange. The SEC under Williams' direction will have to decide how much more expansion...
...Babe's and Scruffy's for pizza and sandwiches. In a scene straight out of American Graffiti, cars cruised downtown streets. Above, a local radio personality buzzed the cavernous Veterans Memorial Auditorium in a plane with wing lights that flashed GO, RAMS . . . HAWKETTES . . . TROJANETTES. Inside the arena thundered a cacophony of horns, shrieks and stamping feet, while medical technicians wearing vests decorated with red hearts hovered in the wings, alert for coronary victims. The 58th Iowa State High School Basketball Championship for Girls was under way, and TIME Correspondent Richard Woodbury was there to observe the fevered five...
...fans in the arena and the estimated 2½ million who watched on a nine-state television hookup saw a game to remember. The Cougars' guards managed to contain Folk's White, but Forward Sharon Blake benefited from the defensive attention lavished on her teammate, sinking 22 points. Kennedy's Sisters Mossbarger, alternately swapping guard and forward positions, proved devastating under the boards. The lead changed hands 14 times before the half ended in a 26-26 tie, and seesawed again in the second half until, with 44 seconds remaining. Blake sank a basket and a free...
...Silverman, the show's promoter, blames the lack of good Irish fighters for this year's break from tradition. Without Irish boxers, the event can hardly hope to fill the Arena, much less the Garden. The people from South Boston simply don't come out to the fights if they can't cheer on the gutsy kid from L Street...
...hockey team called the Barons stopped paying its players. Melvin Swig, the president of the Barons, pleaded the club's poverty, which was an honest plea as Mr. Swig stated it. The Barons were not drawing in their home arena near Cleveland. Mr. Swig, however, resides in San Francisco. There his family prospers in real estate and owns the glorious and expensive Fairmont Hotel...