Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Growers bet on a desert bean...
...limits of this big-is-beautiful philosophy may be severely tested in the coming months. No sooner had Du Pont and Conoco exchanged vows than Wall Street was abuzz with speculation about the next multibillion-dollar corporate link. The best bet is a union between Texaco and Cities Service...
...solved these problems yet, and it is a safe bet Ronald Reagan will do little but worsen them. Indeed, there seems a tremendous chance that Fallows' prescriptions for change in the military make atrocities like Vietnam easier. Central to his book is the hope that the "military spirit" can be restored; he calls it the "most important task in defense." There must be, he writes, "a bond of respect between the military and rest of society," achieved mainly through the draft. But any society that thinks too much of its military may be heading towards militarism, with all its attendant...
...inspired, thanks to a stimulant revered as sacred eight centuries ago by the great Inca civilization. Start each day right with Snowghurt or Flake Flakes. A little Leaf instead of lettuce for lunch. Toot Sweet, come the Happy Hour. [Band music swells in crescendo.] Mayke it bet-tah with Coke...
...their TV-bred images. Burt Reynolds outsmarts the smokeys; Farrah Fawcett sounds like a Barbie doll who's swallowed helium; Sammy Davis Jr. flashes his Chiclets; Jamie Farr does Arab jokes; Dean Martin gooses Dom DeLuise. Reynolds avers that this will be his last redneck rollicker. Wanna bet? He was paid a reported $5 million for moseying through Cannonball, which opened to the third highest grossing weekend business in U.S. movie history. Superman II, which premiered the same day, is first; Star Trek-the Motion Picture is second. Moviegoers, it seems, are flocking to the tried and true...