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Word: bets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LOVE. An infusion of wit and imagination raises this police film above the rank and file. One of New York's finest (Al Pacino) pursues a serial killer who is stalking womanizers; the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 2, 1989 | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

Call me naive, but I was so sure of it that I would have made a bet with anyone. Form a line and place your bets, current odds are 3-1 that a course on Puerto Rico will finally be offered at Harvard...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Puerto Rico: Swept Under the Rug | 9/27/1989 | See Source »

...Harvard men's tennis team, it's a sure bet, even when the odds aren't as great...

Author: By Mia Kang, | Title: Netmen Dominate at Harvard Invitational | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...today's fast-buck standards, farming is a sucker bet. The risks greatly outweigh the rewards, unless, like Bauer, you count looking up from your chores to watch a flight of geese or down at some of the richest soil in the world. According to Sally's accounting, the year Rhodes hung around was so-so: the family netted $19,000 on a gross income...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In The Dell | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...animates his pursuit of a serial killer who is stalking womanizers (nice reversal of expectations there). Keller and his partner (John Goodman) place ads in the personal columns of an alternative newspaper and start dating the respondents. Needless to say, the likeliest suspect (Ellen Barkin) is also the best bet to comfort our hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Policeman's Lot | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

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