Word: betting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forward Kevin McHale said: "I bet when I'm old and gray and I tell my grandchildren we won 28 straight at home, they'll say 'so what?' But if I say we won the world championship, they'll say 'oh, that's neat...
...however, the contras prove that they are a force that can seriously threaten the Sandinistas, attitudes may shift. "At cockfights in Nicaragua, most people won't make a bet until one cock is already bleeding and close to losing the fight," says a Western diplomat. "Nicaraguans want to be on the safe side with the winner. In this war, the people will join in only when the final outcome is absolutely clear to everybody." In the meantime, most will endure, sacrifice and fence-sit as best they...
...Cardinals do in the N.C.A.A. tournament. For a minimum of $500, a customer can buy a Wildcat CD or a Cardinal CD that offers a base interest rate of 7.5%. If the chosen team makes the playoffs, the rate will bounce to 7.7%. That seems a sure bet with either team, since Kentucky was ranked No. 5 and Louisville No. 13 in the latest Associated Press poll. For , each game the team wins, another .1 percentage point is added to the rate, and a national championship brings a .2 bonus. The maximum possible rate...
...arrest, in July 1984, came just six months after Burnett's parole from a federal prison on charges of currency manipulation and possession of stolen stocks, and the con man seemed a sure bet for a return stretch. But he was no run-of-the-mill criminal. For 30 years Burnett had negotiated light sentences for fraud and other crimes by informing for the FBI. Now he again offered to trade, telling the FBI that while working for Systematic Recovery Service, a collection agency trying to secure municipal contracts in New York and Chicago, he had stumbled into widespread political...
...flaw, Ralph: it's totally wrong. There is no clitoral party line, though easily threatened males may think so. The clitoris ! is the normal center of women's sexuality, and it is not our fault that it happens to be located in a spot that men find inconvenient. I bet that the article in the Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy is just more woolgathering about the G spot...