Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty discussion: "Ethnic Marginality in American Literature," with newly-arrived chairman of the Afro-Am department, Nathan I. Huggins. If you only have the mettle for one of these sessions, this might be your best bet. Huggins steps right into the fire this year, and all eyes will be watching to see if he can quell wide-spread concern about Afro-Am. Science Center...
Okay, freshmen. Today's the day to take freshman trips! That's right, there's a bike trip, a trip to Crane's Beach, a trip to the Hancock Observatory, and a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts (the last is the best bet). You'll probably have more fun if you go on your own, though...
...Italian guy twirling an embryonic pizza at the counter of La Trattoria, one of the many sidewalk ethnic food joints which are wedged into former storefornts. Staring aimlessly into the passing traffic, the pizzaman seems as blind as his neighbor. Asking the pizzaman for his name seems a sure bet to end the conversation, so he too, remains anonymous...
...little monsters, but he was still just that, a little monster. One tyke who had the misfortune to face Arias several times in those early days told me over a tennis camp lunch once, "He's great. He's the best. He's also an asshole, and I bet he gets screwed...
...rocketing cost of petroleum pushes electrical utility rates further and further into orbit, "windmill power" is becoming a good bet. In Clayton, N. Mex., 15% of the town's residents now receive their electricity from a giant propeller-like windmill that swivels on a horizontal axis to capture the prevailing winds. In the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, retired Businessman Percy Newbery, 58, is generating an average of $30 worth of electricity per month by means of a windmill device that looks like a jet engine and sits on a 75-ft. wooden pole beside his house. In Hawaii, Puerto...