Word: fairings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while, the new league looked like a fair bet. Franchises were a bargain: $2 million to $5 million a city, vs. $70 million in the N.F.L. True, blue-chip players did not come cheap. Trump, the owner of the New Jersey Generals, paid $5 million for Georgia Running Back Herschel Walker and $8 million for Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie. Still, much of the money could be written off against profits from the owner's other investments. Besides, a bidding war served to run up the other league's costs while siphoning off talent...
...fair to say that both sides are negotiating in good faith and that we're close to a deal," said attorney Kerry R. Lyne '52, a Pudding alumnus who is negotiating with the University...
...South Africa's Deputy Minister of Information, about the government's sweeping press restrictions. The month-old rules have complicated the work of Johannesburg Bureau Chief Bruce Nelan and Reporter Peter Hawthorne, but Muller left determined "that TIME continue to be able to provide its readers with honest, fair and accurate reporting from South Africa...
...rendered virtually impotent by dissension. By working to put together strong majorities on foreign-policy issues, he has brought greater clout to the panel than it has enjoyed in a decade. "He's a good chairman," says the committee's ranking Democrat, Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell. "He's fair and patient and would prefer a consensus to winning a point by a vote." Lugar has also earned high praise for helping position the Administration behind Corazon Aquino during the last days of Ferdinand Marcos' rule in the Philippines...
...view of the offended party. The viewer, who is vouchsafed all Rachel's perceptions and prejudices, is never told Mark's reasons for seeking solace in the bed of a society hostess while his wife is seven months pregnant. But nobody said life or art had to be fair. Only true and painful and funny. In its wicked, lopsided way, Heartburn fills the bill. "Love's something you fall in," wrote Playwright Terry Johnson. For Heartburn to work, the moviegoer must fall in love with Mark, as Rachel does, then fall out with a crash. So why are these opposites...