Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the efforts of Tampa Bay Bandits' owner John Bassett, the league went ahead with the planned move away from spring football despite the added burden of the bankrupt Los Angeles franchise abandoned by Oldenburg. The USFL didn't take long to sink after the league's failed lawsuit attempt against...
John Howard in Owensboro, Ky., set up a sort of drivethrough poll at his Crickets Classy Car Wash, and said the results were about even. Customers could drive into a bay named for the presidential candidate of their choosing. "It's very scientific," he said. "The margin of error is 100 percent...
...time has gone on, women have not been able to stay home for 15 to 20 years," says Donna LeClair, director of the Bay State Centers for Displaced Homemakers, which serves more than 2500 of Massachusetts' 310,000 displaced women annually...
Influence peddling was to have been curbed by the series of campaign laws that Congress passed in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Designed to keep fat cats at bay, the legislation permits individual donors to give a maximum of $1,000 to any one candidate and gifts to multiple candidates in federal races that can total no more than $25,000 a year. Companies are not allowed to contribute directly to campaigns, but they, along with labor unions and other organizations, can set up political-action committees that solicit donations from employees or members and give...
...took nearly seven months of sometimes acrimonious negotiations, but last week the U.S. and the Philippines signed a two-year compensation agreement covering the use of Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base, America's biggest overseas bases. Unhappy with the annual $181 million the U.S. had been paying, Manila initially demanded $2.3 billion in yearly compensation. The U.S. countered with a first offer of $360 million but later added to the package. After signing the pact in Washington last week, Foreign Secretary Raul Manglapus maintained that the U.S. had come close to meeting Manila's minimum demands...