Word: bets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the season, Penn looked like a solid bet to win the Ivy title. The Quakers had two brilliant guards in Jeff Neuman and Stan Pawlak, who between them have averaged 43 points per game this season. And Penn's front line averaged an imposing...
...Betting on the Price. A mixture of good and bad news provided the ground for their hope. A sharp rise in gold hoarding abroad has sent shivers through Europe's finance ministries. The free world's official stores of gold-in national treasuries and in the hands of such international bodies as the Inter national Monetary Fund, the Bank for International Settlements and the Euro pean Payments Union-fell by $40 million during the first nine months of 1965. That was the first such drop in ten years. The IMF figures that the missing gold has flowed into...
Swift's insight still applies-246 years later-as few statesmen understand bet ter than the Group of Ten, a blue-ribbon panel of finance ministers and central-bank governors from Belgium, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. The group will shortly meet again in Paris, with its sights set on reaching a compromise agreement by March...
...staff is betting that White House Chef René Verdon can't cook chili, Pedernales River or any other style. And we'll bet two bits he's never sunk a fang into a puree of garbanzos. All of which boils down to: "If you ain't tried it, don't knock...
...contract that would make him the highest paid defensive player in the history of pro football. Tommy posed for photographs with Oilman Adams. Then he flew off and signed an Atlanta contract-for $225,000 (or so went the story). "There is something more to this, I'll bet," Adams muttered. Undoubtedly. But Nobis insisted that he was motivated purely by professional pride. "If I had signed with the A.F.L.," he explained, "I think I always would have wondered if I could have made it against the men of the N.F.L...