Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orleans Lawyer Ned Kohnke was stunned at dinner last month when his brother mentioned a rumor: a Tulane basketball player had told friends before a recent game, "The fix is on." Kohnke, a Tulane alumnus, benefactor and basketball fan, agonized for several days before contacting Orleans Parish District Attorney Harry Connick...
...proceeds from bets on the game, Eads and Johnson were not only interested but recruited Guards David Dominique and Bobby Thompson and Star Center John ("Hot Rod") Williams into the deal. Tulane beat Southern Mississippi by a single point. Two Saturdays later the players allegedly conspired to fix the Virginia Tech game, but the plan apparently misfired. Four days after that, they went into the tank again. Tulane, which finished the season with a mediocre 15-13 record, lost to Memphis State by eleven points, more than the four-point margin the betting line had predicted...
...Moscow in the Carter Administration, disagreed vigorously. "I happen to feel summits aren't a very useful way of doing serious diplomatic or political business," he said. "It makes no sense for a U.S. President and a Soviet General Secretary to meet just in order to 'get a fix on each other...
...quick fix, but we're intent on working at it continually. We're gradually embracing all the [ethnic and racial] groups by giving them space," he adds...
...assistant, helps an executive track his business's performance. Should sales, costs or inventory, for example, get too far out of line, the program warns the boss and automatically generates a memo to the manager responsible, asking for an explanation of exactly what went wrong and a plan to fix...