Word: bets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers not to drink and drive: "These kids are drinking, and some are going to continue to drink even if you raise the legal age to 40." College students reiterate the same argument they used effectively in the early '70s. Protests Curt Pawlisch, a leader...
...recruited is still playing football, Washington Redskins Running Back Wilbur Jackson (class of '74). Three years ago, Bryant responded feebly to a lingering charge that he had once talked aloud of never wanting any black players on his team: "I don't recall it. I'd bet my life I never said it. Maybe I did. I don't say anything that would come back to haunt me." But it is also a matter of record that his players, black and white, speak of him lovingly. They never seem to outgrow their...
...sale went through, five hours after Hearst suspended publication and sent employees home. The settlement, after 30 consecutive hours of bargaining, closed a week of allegations by Hearst executives that the Globe was trying to sabotage union negotiations. Crowed the Herald on its front page Saturday morning: YOU BET WE'RE ALIVE...
...Left Handed Gun (1958): A little bit ahead of its time and a classic in Europe. To this day I still get $800 at the end of the year. Go to Paris right now, and I bet you it is playing in some tiny theater...
...Elsewhere (NBC, Tuesdays, 10-11 p.m. E.S.T.) it is unclear whether the show's St. Eligius Hospital in Boston-known, not always with affection, as St. Elsewhere-is located near Cheers, but it is a safe bet that its local police force could be the Hill Street Blues. NBC's Hill Street Blues, fractured and jazzy, seems to be stuck in a slough of self-admiration at the moment, but it set a style for television drama that St. Elsewhere is emulating with considerable success. The new show is populated by a floating rep company of actors, including...