Word: cards
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...jeopardy," he said, "threatened by those who would quit before the job is done." He spoke of the arms-control talks now under way in Geneva. "Just as we are sitting down at the bargaining table with the Soviet Union," Reagan pleaded, "let's not throw America's trump card away...
...bold and risky ploy. Bryan apparently assumed that Borman would resign rather than agree to sell Eastern. Borman, for his part, calculated that the labor leader would never allow a takeover by Lorenzo. Reason: Lorenzo had enraged virtually every card-carrying union member in 1983, when his Continental Airlines filed for bankruptcy and abrogated the airline's union contracts. Lorenzo laid off the firm's 12,000 employees and offered them their jobs back at about half salary...
...visits Springfield Thursday for what will be Coach John Lee's final meet with the Crimson. The grapplers placed eighth of 16 (second in the Ivies) by scoring 38 points in the Eastern Invitational Tournament last weekend. Heavyweight Kevin Wattles placed fourth and earned a "wild card" trip to nationals at the University of Iowa...
Although 134-lb. Jeff Clark's fifth place finish did not earn him a national tournament berth, he fell only one spot short. Clark was named the tournament's third wild-card finisher...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International Airport...