Word: doggedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact, betting on sporting events other than horse or dog races or jai alai is generally a crime in every state except Nevada. But by now the prohibition, like many other antigambling laws, is hardly ever enforced. Betting goes on so openly that all but a handful of newspaper sports pages print the odds on baseball, football and basketball games. During the football season, the New York Daily News publishes four regular and two rotating columnists who offer weekly advice on which pro and college games to bet; its columns bristle with ads touting betting services offering the same assistance...
...alas, the attack dog was pulled off the job during the most recent union campaign because, as rumor has it, he was seen as too much of a bad guy. Without Steiner leading the opposition, the union won, and the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers now represents the University's 3400 support staff...
...apple from Bentsen's hand. Bentsen reaches through the bars to scratch the leathery muzzle. Rhinos are slow-witted, almost childlike creatures that when startled tend to charge first and ask questions later. But once it knows your voice, a captive rhino can be called like a pet dog...
...newcomer felt time-warped, mired in a past age of LP records, the ERA and two-wheel drive. It wasn't the new lingo ("persona," "agenda," "biorhythms"), nor the acronyms ("EIS," "CAD" and "MSG"). It wasn't the commercial wackiness of products like "gourmet dog food." It wasn't even the daily drive-by shootings -- talk about an automotive civilization -- in Los Angeles' gangland. Mayhem is not confined...
...stood to applaud Wright's denunciation of "mindless cannibalism," Gingrich rose to his feet only grudgingly, hands jammed into his pockets. Afterward, Gingrich, the minority whip and second-ranking Republican in Congress, shunned the crowds of waiting reporters. When he finally did surface, he bristled with his usual attack-dog rhetoric: "Jim Wright is forced out, and he blames the rest of us for his resignation. He has insulted the ethics committee and every decent person in this House...