Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
Competition: Bucknell versus Columbia? Which team do you bet on? Northeastern versus Dartmouth? Colgate versus Cornell? Which team are you going...
...During fiscal 1986, which ended in October, Firestone posted $3.5 billion in sales but managed to earn only $3 million from its continuing operations. The company's chairman, John Nevin, admits that restructuring has ( an element of trial and error. Says he: "Have we done some things wrong? You bet your life...
...Ronald Reagan and Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke could not stay out of the guessing game. In a phone call two weeks ago, the President offered the PM a "proposition on a matter of importance and some common concern to the people of both our nations." He bet "my favorite cowboy hat" on the U.S. entry. Hawke responded by putting a wide-brimmed bush hat on the Kookaburra. Whoever wins, all hats will be off to the men of both teams. Then after a few weeks they can start revving up for the next Cup encounter...
...resounding "you bet" to the question, Can a ferocious movie about an unpopular war, filmed on the cheap with no stars and turned down by every major studio, find success, controversy and the promise of an Oscar statuette at the end of the tunnel? In its early limited opening, Platoon is already a prestige hit, and the film shows signs of becoming a blockbuster as it opens across the country over the next three weeks. It has captivated intellectuals, movie buffs and urban grunts -- astonishing, across-the-board appeal for a hellacious sermon. It has ignited a fire storm...