Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jimmy Carter had bet on his choices in the gubernatorial elections, it would have been, in Las Vegas parlance, a push. In Virginia, Carter was counting on Henry Howell to take a state that Carter himself could not win last year. Howell, who often invoked his friendship with the President, failed too. In New Jersey, where Jimmy and Rosalynn spoke up for Governor Brendan Byrne's reelection, their efforts were rewarded. But both elections, as expected, were decided mostly by the candidates' personalities and local issues...
Although the distant future is cloudy, it is a pretty sure bet that at this unusual team will be terrorizing New England Ford races throughout the 1978 season. Aronson's attitude typifies that of his teammates: "I'm very interested in racing, if not totally obsessed. It's not something I want to do my whole life--I do have other interests--but I'd like to get more involved and try to progress...
...course, in the long run it might not matter. Certainly, few people remember much about the plot of Oklahoma or The King and I; maybe the songs are all that matter after all. In that case, Gars and Goyles is a good bet, at least for an evening's worth of harmless fun. It all depends on what you're looking for: Ya pays yer money, as the hucksters say, and ya takes yer choice...
None of the new immigrants, however, are as likely to succeed as the more farsighted speculators who are willing to bet on a black-inspired boom to come. The logic is fairly simple: if there is a peaceful transition to nationalist government, then the country's long economic drought under United Nations' sanctions will come abruptly to an end. Real estate, agriculture, tobacco, mining, even tourism-all should experience a quick revival. Companies from Stuttgart to Nagasaki have been sending semisecret scouting missions to Salisbury. "Zimbabwe is going to be the biggest boom country you've ever...
Theodore J. St. Antoine, dean of the University of Michigan Law School: "If you force me to bet, I'm going to bet that they reverse the Bakke case [and rule against him] . . . In my judgment there will be some provisions left open for an affirmative-action program that will allow making race an admissions distinction. The vote might be 6 to 3, and the majority opinion may be somewhat muddled...