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Three weeks ago the team's situation became unsalvageable. With a 1-13 record, paid attendance averaging 7,500, compared with 50,000 paying to see the Lions, and a stack of unpaid bills, the franchise went bust. Not surprisingly, the players were furious. "I'd like to hang the owners by their thumbs," says Collins. "They're just 32 jerks who thought they'd be millionaires overnight. They only told us one truthful thing out of 50,000 lies. That was the fact that we were going bankrupt...
George L. Russell '75, the band's manager, said yesterday, "Like many other organizations, we depend heavily on alumni for support. The last reunion in 1969 was a bust, so we want to make this...
That is not much of an exaggeration. Housing has always been a boom-and-bust business; builders tend to put up too many homes when money is available, operating not on careful demand estimates but on blind faith that there will always be buyers. This year there are not, and 1974 could almost be called the year the building stopped. In January 1973, housing starts ran at an annual rate of almost 2.5 million, a high point in a succession of three unusually fat years for the industry. Since then, starts have plummeted to an annual rate of about...
...industry. A Conservative government will find it much easier than a Labour one, of course, to obtain mountains of foreign credits, but the indulgence of foreign bankers will run out eventually. In order to reduce costs some companies will attempt to lay off workers; meanwhile, other firms will go bust under the impact of tactical strikes and the slump. Nationalization of both kinds of companies will be demanded to save jobs and, given the state of public opinion in Britain today, such demands will be irresistible. Once industry is nationalized, the same kind of redistribution of wealth that would occur...
...team may not "bust up" Dillon, but it's sure to overcome its 4-6 record of last year, with Matson returning at goalie, Karen Linsley at inner, Nancy Sato at center half, Diana Finch at halfback, and what Matson describes as "the best looking team in 73 years...