Word: bets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...demonstrations and fury of a few can be taken as the will of the many. Even Abraham Lincoln, that most convinced of democrats, argued that all the people can be fooled (or confused) some of the time: it was democracy's long-run judgment that he would bet on. He lived in an age when rhetoric had not yet been debased. "Peace with honor" was invoked to justify the Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam; "commitment" has become a disputed phrase about what Richard Nixon did or did not promise Saigon. But surely peace with honor includes a refuge...
Bakery Magnate. For conservative horseplayers who had bet on Foolish Pleasure, the payoff was a miserly $5.80. For the winner's owner, John Greer, a banker and bakery magnate in Tennessee, the return was a more satisfying $209,000, bringing Foolish Pleasure's career earnings to $673,000. Greer bought him as a yearling...
Arthur Okun of the Brookings Institution reckons that the bottoming-out process could begin as early as this month or as late as October. "Once we get started, we will have a lot of bounce-back," predicts Okun. "By the fourth quarter, I am willing to bet we will see very strong gains." William Tongue, a University of Illinois economist, expects the recovery to take the shape...
...summed up his attitude about politics in the advice he gave Nixon: "If you lose, you lose big. But what's the sense of losing small?" John Connally has never lost, small or big, and the events of last week suggest that it still may be unwise to bet against...
Gaylord perry, the winning pitcher in his tenth consecutive opening day assignment, settled down and went the distance after the Yankees jumped to a 3-1 lead in the second inning. He was helped immensely by the booming bet of Boog Powell, the former Baltimore first baseman...