Word: crowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once they were the crown jewel of professional sport, a franchise whose very name was synonymous with big league success. But over the years, an archaic ballpark, a deteriorating neighborhood, and a roster of mediocre players have considerably dulled the sparkle of the New York Yankees. Last week the team's owners, the Columbia Broadcasting System, cut their losses by selling the Bronx Bombers for the modest sum of $10 million cash to a syndicate headed by Yankee President and CBS Executive Michael Burke...
...Crimson had a field day against Brown last week, mauling the Bruins, 40-12. But Navy is tough. The Midshipmen have won three Eastern championships in the last four years, and they reanxious for another crown...
SUPER SUNDAY: Super Bowl Seventy-five million Americans will watch the Redskins and Dolphins battle for the NFL crown today. Can 75 million Americans be wrong? CH. 4. 3:30 p.m. Color. Live...
...incorporation for thousands of businesses that actually have their assets elsewhere. Suddenly, much of the world's offshore money-a lot of it hidden from homeland tax men or otherwise "hot"-is fleeing Nassau. Millions of dollars are landing in, of all places, the Cayman Islands, a British crown colony south of Cuba. Once a pirates' stash, the Caymans have existed for the past 300 years mostly by soaking up the Caribbean sun. TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron visited both Grand Cayman Island and Nassau and filed this report...
Victoria's impulsive reach for a gunboat was as quick as Lord Palmerston's whenever the empire's prerogatives were challenged. Although Albert tried to assert the principle that the crown should be above politics, she remained, as one expects queens to be, a natural Tory. Thus she ignored the Chartist riots of 1839, largely because no minister could persuade her that the rabble mattered. Albert and Victoria concurred on one political principle, that a sovereign's duty was to save "her" people from the blunders of their elect ed representatives. By custom, the Queen ruled...