Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Phillips (11.2 p.p.g.) and Webster (11.3 p.p.g.) entered the contest in a race for the team's scoring leadership. Webster copped the crown by scoring 18 on the evening while Phillips recorded just 17...After averaging only 60.8 points per game going into the weekend, Harvard hit a scoring bonanza with 78 points Friday night and 70 Saturday...Dudley had four blocked shots on the evening...Four of the five Eli starters finished the contest with four personal fouls. Meanwhile, not one Crimson cager had more than three...Webster went six for six from the charity stripe...Yale now holds...
...Texas--football and spring football." Former University of Texas Basketball Coach Abe Lemons laments, "You can lay a football down in a parking lot and draw a crowd," but college jump shooters have been a rougher sell in the Lone Star State. Historically, pro basketball has been no bonanza either. One night in 1973, the Dallas Chaparrals of the American Basketball Association counted 130 paying customers and moved to San Antonio...
Certainly the swimsuit issue is a once-a-year bonanza for the magazine. Advertising pulls in nearly three times as much revenue as any other edition, as the publishers expect to sell over 800,000 copies--about eight times normal newsstand sales...
...recent years the chill in Washington-Moscow relations has turned the annual meetings of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council into a littlenoticed and lightly attended affair. But last week, in search of a bonanza, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and more than 400 U.S. business leaders descended on Moscow for this year's meeting. Last year trade between the two countries amounted to only $3.9 billion, mostly in grain shipments from the U.S. Yet the executives got a jolt of optimism from last month's summit talks between President Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev. They came to Moscow...
...unable to cite anything palpable that he had done to earn the money, saying only that he was "a lawyer's lawyer, a door opener." He denied, however, that there was anything illegal about profiting from his connections and influence. When U.S. Attorney John Volz pressed him about the bonanza from one sale, the Governor joyfully replied, "All of a sudden -- boom! We hit the jackpot. It was a happy day at home...