Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shrewd Syrians, who invited Jackson after the candidate had asked for Goodman's release, it was a no-lose situation. If they decided to hold on to Goodman, the publicity generated by Jackson's trip would enhance Goodman's value as a Syrian bargaining chip with Washington. If they released him to the populist, relatively pro-Arab Jackson, they could show magnanimity and embarrass the Reagan Administration...
Tribes generally hire outside firms, some less than blue chip, to help run their bingo gaming. The usual fee is 45% of profits. There are some extravagantly bad deals: some Morongos, for instance, were given microwave ovens and video games, but get only 5% of any profits over $500,000. A bill introduced in Congress by Arizona Democrat Morris Udall would require BIA scrutiny of all Indian bingo-management deals...
...Janie is an underemployed writer, short, sad-eyed and Jewish, with an attitude problem ("Know what I resent? Just about everything!") and a rather complacent identity crisis ("I very badly want to be someone else without going to the trouble of changing myself). Her boyfriend Marty (Chip Zien) is a kidney specialist who looks like a Muppet rabbi and calls Janie "Monkey." Her father (Stephen Pearlman) is a nice guy with all the charisma of Muzak in a minor key; her mother (Betty Comden) is a danceaholic who can't let go of her baby. Janie knows...
Some U.S. officials suggest that a well-funded research-and-development program will serve as another bargaining chip in arms-control negotiations. But such a program could just as easily wreck negotiations. Even field-testing antimissile space weapons would likely violate several treaties signed during the past two decades, particularly the 1972 ban on most antiballistic missiles, negotiated to prevent the very sort of instability that space weaponry threatens to create...
...Roger Javens WB 30 Bob White LB 31 Rick Koze TB 32 Kevin Kalinich DE 33 Andy Marwede TE/FB 34 Mike LaSpina LB 35 Dave Kline TB 36 Nick Manolukas DE 37 Dave Rohol MG 38 Jeff Bassette FB 39 Mike Tjarksen WB 40 Paul Andrie TB 41 Chip Benny FB 42 Steffan Havas FB 43 Paul Spivack TB 44 John Neville FB 45 Steve Gay DB 46 Stephen Penders DB 47 Jay Ruffin DB 48 Joe Nicola DB 49 Tom Reach LB 50 Tim Weber LB 51 Martin Martinson C 52 Steve Faliski DE 53 Walt Leckowicz...