Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in 25 years I'm seeing the world without an alcoholic haze," Richard Burton boasted last week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly...
Besides the practical reason ?st equal enrollment, Dean Pet?nd his committee alternated bet?wo theoretical or philosophical ?s, the pluralism idea that "w? ?re different" and the straigl?d declaration that women...
Part of the problem lies in the fact that a bet made by the utilities in the mid-1960s did not quite pay off. At that time, nuclear energy seemed cheap, easily produced and pollution-free. Starting in 1963, utility after utility committed itself to the peaceful atom until in 1967 almost half of all new generating power ordered was nuclear...
...Pride" [July 13] makes a brief and trivial point. You can bet, by damn, that if all homosexuals were black, or members of some other over-sponsored minority, doubtless some august institution like the late Warren Court would long ago have clamped a doubly protective constitutional shield around us. Individual dignity, it seems, comes in only a few colors these days, none of which is lavender...
Though Tussing is only half serious, the bet is that Alaskans will not repeat the mistakes of this year's postponed boom. The state legislature can surely do better. In its last session, which ran a record 147 days, precious little was accomplished in long-term planning. The lawmakers had a "Blueprint for the Future" prepared by the Brookings Institution in Washington. Governor Miller preferred to order up his own study by the Stanford Research Institute. Result: ineffectual bickering about differences between the two versions. Still, one of the charms of the Alaskan legislators is that they have a particularly...