Word: bowlful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...introduction of labor contracts may have the most far-reaching consequences. Under the lifetime-employment system, which the Chinese call the "iron rice bowl," workers can shirk their duties without fear of dismissal or reductions in pay. Their jobs are assigned, often regardless of ability or skill; indeed, most aspects of their careers are controlled by their bosses. "Because of these practices," says Qingdao Mayor Guo Songnian, "workers are slouchy and enterprises are sluggish. The job-contract system aims gradually but substantially to solve this problem...
Army 28, Yale 21: An Ivy League team has no business playing a bowl team, but Yale continues to try. A couple of years ago, the Elis were crushed by Boston College. This year, they might fare a little bit better against the Cadets, but not nearly well enough...
...mother didn't care much about the game. She came to the alley to have fun, she said. My father, on the other hand, was deadly serious about bowling. Before he went to bowl, he stared at the pins for a minute, took a few measured steps and hurled the ball toward the end of the alley. He cursed a poor frame and congratulated himself on a good...
...have injured shoulders. A master at developing young quarterbacks, 49ers Coach Bill Walsh is left with Jack Kemp's son Jeff, 27, a substitute for five seasons with the Los Angeles Rams, and Journeyman Mike Moroski. Neither can be expected to match the two-time MVP of the Super Bowl. By a complicated system the N.F.L. employs for measuring quarterbacks, Miami's Dan Marino has just dislodged Montana as the highest rated in history, followed at a distance by Hall of Famers Roger Staubach and Sonny Jurgensen. Montana unhinged himself in the opening game of his eighth season, throwing...
...World Series every year. We win the Super Bowl every year," said Bruce R. Scott, Cherington Professor of Business Administration. "There still are a lot of signs that we're number...