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...Bucs won the overtime coin toss and choose to kick off with a stiff wind at their backs on the frigid day. Sammy Martin's 34-yard return gave the Patriots the ball at their 35-yard line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Staurovsky's OT Kick Beats Bucs, 10-7 | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...Eagle. The Postal Service is charging in a complaint to an administrative judge that the Washington Mint's advertising falsely implies that the company has an affiliation with the U.S. Government. The 12-oz. Connecticut Eagle, which is based on the Federal Government's popular 1-oz. American Eagle coin, sells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLLECTIBLES: Taking Shots At an Eagle | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

WHAT about Goodwin's noted accomplishments, his defenders might rejoin? After all, insane people don't write presidential speeches, coin terms like the Alliance for Progress and the Great Society or write breath-taking memoirs...

Author: By Matthew Pinsker, | Title: Richard Goodwin: Monday Morning Psychoanalyst | 10/29/1988 | See Source »

...brothers who filed for personal bankruptcy protection in Dallas last week were no down-and-outers. The long list of possessions mentioned in the filing included Hawaiian real estate, half interest in a Vail, Colo., ski lodge, two Cadillacs, a Mercedes-Benz and a 13,649-piece Byzantine coin collection. But the petitioners, oil heirs Nelson Bunker and Herbert Hunt, realized that their fabled wealth -- still about $1 billion even after many years of financial setbacks -- was in danger of being wiped out by their burgeoning legal problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONAL FINANCE: Billionaire Bankrupts | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

During the New York trial, Bunker Hunt testified that he began accumulating silver in 1973 as a hedge against inflation, "to invest in something I could get my hands on." By late 1979, the brothers had acquired more than 180 million oz. of bullion and coin. Prices rocketed to euphoric heights, hitting a peak of $50.35 per oz. in January...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Bill for a Bullion Binge | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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