Word: cards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball card market has supported three different brands since 1981, and a fourth, Score, has tried to join the lineup this year. These days, Topps--the brand you bought in fourth grade--has its hands full fulfilling its name...
Between the four companies' main sets and their special card sets, there are over 2500 individual pieces of cardboard to buy. No kid can afford to buy them all, so the fierce competition has created an explosion of color and style. Gone are the cards that had plain lettering under a rectangular photo on a white background. Lone gone is Topps' 1977 set, which had maybe a dozen action photos...
...economic policies on those who benefited least from them. Both the proposed spending cuts and the possible tax increases of Peterson's plan are designed to soak the working class and spare the wealthy. Under Reagan, the financial establishment threw a massive party on Uncle Sam's Master Card, and now they are handing the bill to those who weren't invited...
Reservations on Cinderella's dance card are booked years in advance these days. North Carolina State delighted in '83. Villanova thrilled in '85. Louisville engrossed in '86. By the time Kansas lined up for a spin around the dance floor last night, Cinderella was dreaming about the good old days when she used to clean fire places for a living...
Irene Chang, a junior at Berkeley, had not planned to apply for a credit card. Then she heard a rumor that students who asked for a Visa card or MasterCard at a campus Citibank booth were rejected if they were majoring in the humanities. An English major and a reporter for the college paper, the Daily Californian, Chang asked the company representative if the rumor was true. Said Chang: "She told me, 'Just put in either business administration or electrical engineering...