Word: bets
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...going after new voters. Together, the Reagan Bush reelection camp and the Republican National Committee are planning to spend $10 million in the hopes of registering between two and two and a half million new voters. "There are 53 million unregistered votes out there, and it's a good bet they're not all Black," says campaign aide John Buckley...
...only remaining competition for the Crimson is the MISRA national championships, next weekend in Annapolis, Md. Harvard is the defending national champion and a good bet to repeat...
...Saturday. Another East German bob took the silver medal. The Soviets and one of their cigarskis won the bronze, however. For their team and all the others (including the Americans, who dragged in a dreary 15th), the next move was back to the drawing board. It is a good bet that unless the bobsled federation outlaws the new design on safety grounds, as doubters have threatened to do, some of the sketches that result will look a lot like the cigarski...
...time due to a succession of minor injuries this season, the most recent of which kept him out of the Penn match. The other four have all been playing good squash and looked particularly strong against the Quakers. If Jackson plays well, the racquetmen look to be a good bet to repeat as champs...
Enticing as it may seem, though, the space station is not yet a sure bet. In an era of huge federal deficits, it will be an obvious target for congressional budget cutting. Some scientists, including a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, are concerned that the station could take precious federal funds from other research in space. (Beggs insists that NASA has no intention of sacrificing any existing programs.) Nor does the station have much support from the Pentagon, which says there is no compelling military need...