Word: chips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Slight Edge. Then the battle for the uncommitted delegates will become even more bruising. Ford is stronger than Reagan among New York's 16 uncommitted delegates and has a slight edge among Illinois' 13. Reagan's operatives, on the other hand, hope to chip away a few members from the overwhelmingly pro-Ford delegations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Reagan is also confident of winning all of Mississippi's 30 seats since the delegates have adopted the unit rule (whoever wins a majority, however narrow, gets all 30). Ford is pondering a last-minute trip...
...Salutes, crawl strokes and the gestures associated with rope hauling are incorporated into Balanchine's choreographic concept as smoothly as the jeté and fouetté. The leader of a squad of WRENS (women's naval service), Farrell ambles sexily, as though she had a chip on her hip or, just perhaps, an invisible set of bagpipes. If such a thing as an apotheosis of the sidle can be imagined, Farrell has done it. The evening ends wholesomely, however: the orchestra strikes up Rule Britannia, a huge Union Jack is lowered as a backdrop and the ensemble...
...book, his attempts at insight proceed by a kind of historical method. He sifts through the histories of players, arenas, and American culture, with no particular emphasis on his own life. Of his better-known teammates he provides biographical accounts, which are almost always ironic reversals of the Chip Hilton hero-makes-good stories. He traces the life of Willis Reed from cotton-picking in Mississippi to knee operations in the NBA; Jerry Lucas from Phi Beta Kappa and stardom to bankruptcy; Earl Monroe from street fighting in Philadelphia to racial harrassment in New York; and Walt Frazier from...
...show you something in a suit, sir?" the investment counselor might say unctuously. "A lawsuit I mean. A really blue-chip group of defendants and prospects for an impressive award of damages." Buying snares in a lawsuit? Why not, asks Manhattan Attorney Carl E. Person, who has reason to believe that he is on his way to creating just such an investment possibility...
...prize--which is in effect the Economics graduate students' evaluation of their professors--will be awarded every year until 1985 when Galbraith's seed gift of $50,000 is exhausted. "I think he gave the prize in something of a tongue-in-cheek spirit," Karl E. ("Chip") Case, head tutor of the Economics Department, said last night...