Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...college and professional athletics. Handling as much as $250,000 worth of bets daily, Beckley, 58, mastered all the tricks of his ar-can'e trade: wangling information from locker rooms, computing odds in his head, occasionally bribing athletes. Once Beckley was discovered behind a scheme to fix college basketball games by bribing the referees. On another occasion, word flashed along his betting network that bookies need not worry about the outcome of a football game, because "the coach is betting...
Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, will present an amendment to the Kagan Committee recommendation, proposing that the Faculty not fix a two-to-one ratio of men to women in the coed units...
...adults and eleven children. In another apartment, rented by a 79-year-old man and his wife, one radiator leaks and another has not worked, he said, "for a couple of years." In a third building, many of whose apartments tenants claim Harvard has sought to vacate rather than fix a broken boiler, one woman lived without heat for three months last fall. Tenants have complained about many other maintenance problems...
...1950s. Boulwarism calls for management to make and stick to an initial "firm, fair" offer to employees and to attempt to convince workers of the offer's merits by conducting vigorous "employee marketing" campaigns. Union loyalists have long regarded this strategy as an attempt by the company to fix wage rates unilaterally, but the many unions representing G.E. workers were too divided to challenge the tactic effectively. Then last fall they formed a coalition and won the unconditional support of the whole labor movement for a battle...
FERTILIZERS. To boost crop production, nitrogen fertilizers are spread liberally on California's superb farm lands. Just as people get hooked on drugs, so the soil seems to become addicted to chemical additives and loses its ability to fix its own nitrogen. As a result, more and more fertilizer has to be used. What makes the problem doubly serious is that the nitrates eventually turn up in the water supply, where they endanger human health...