Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem to be that important to him. "If I were drafted in the top eight rounds, then I would seriously consider playing. But I don't forsee that as a likelihood. If I was [drafted up high], then it would mean that those teams [Oakland, San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Seattle and the New York Jets] are serious enough about me to make me serious about them. I'm just not psyched to be somebody's piece of meat somewhere...
Roosevelt has raised $8,000 in the past six months, but says he must raise at least $50,000 by the end of his campaign for the eighth district city council seat, which includes parts of Boston's Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill, and Fenway neighborhoods...
...chance to register their feelings in statewide referenda. Ballots in nine states included nonbinding questions asking voters either whether they supported a moratorium on the production of nuclear weaponry, or whether they backed a mutually verifiable nuclear freeze. In eight of the nine states, voters said "yes"--including the Bay State, which logged in with nearly 70 percent of voters in favor of a moratorium. The nine simultaneous referenda together constitute the closest thing to a national referendum in American history, and as such deserve recognition as a very credible barometer of national sentiment on the nuclear issue...
...when high interest rates in the U.S. and the international oil glut helped to cause the near collapse of Dome. The company, one of Canada's largest, had amassed debts of $7.4 billion, more than one-quarter of that due to the Hudson's Bay deal. Interest rates on the debt grew to a nightmarish 22%. Last month Dome was saved from bankruptcy by a government-backed emergency bailout handled through a consortium of four Canadian banks...
...play it out, perhaps shifting a few games from icy cities as winter stiffens. Is that possible? "This league stopped barnstorming 40 years ago," snaps Rozelle, who usually tries not to snap in the service of the owners. "Is Buffalo going to use Birmingham for six games? Is Green Bay going to use Memphis? The clubs, in my opinion, would have to offer refunds to season-ticket holders who contracted to watch games in October and November that would be played in January and February." Besides, he doubts that the TV networks would reprogram to oblige the N.F.L...