Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...although it will miss the services of these players, Harvard should still be a solid bet to win its sixth straight Ivy League title and to take the ECAC crown that eluded it last year...
...lost Pawloski, which is a tough one," Cleary said. "The doctors told him they weren't too optimistic. But knowing Jerry and seeing him walk around, I don't know--I wouldn't bet against...
Vanunu is believed to be undergoing interrogation by Shin Bet, Israel's internal security service, at a former British fort south of Tel Aviv. He could be charged with violating the country's Official Secrets Act or, worse, with treason, which carries a possible lifetime prison sentence. However, Israeli officials are leery of placing Vanunu on trial. Reason: a verdict of guilty, they concede, would have the effect of confirming his story...
Some students placed unorthodox bets on theoutcome of last night's game. Mark D. Nielsen '86,a first-year student at the Law School, wageredwith his New York room-mate: "Next week I have togive an oral argument in front of 140 people, andif the Mets win, I have to give it with a Mets capon." Another pair of roommates bet a black-tiedinner on the outcome of the game...
...Reagan's America, you cannot keep a good courtier down. Perhaps the rhinos and she-crocodiles whose gyrations between Mortimer's and East Hampton give us our vision of social eminence today are content to entrust their faces to Andy Warhol's mingily cosmetic Polaroiding, but one would bet they would rather go to Sargent. And the public that liked Upstairs, Downstairs is going to like him -- a thought that may not have been too far from the Whitney Museum's calculations when it planned the retrospective of his work that opened there * earlier this month and will...