Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Boston College player Rick Kuhn and four co-defendants were convicted by a federal court judge of charges of conspiracy to fix college basketball games...
...tactics of the Reagan forces during the campaign and who interviewed the victorious President the morning after the Senate vote, it is "a matter of artful intuition, a case of deciphering the winks George Church with Betty and nudges of the handful of insiders who have a real fix on what's happening. You have to watch not only the noses, but those who are counting the noses." Adds Correspondent Evan Thomas, who helped cover last week's climactic Senate debate: "You sometimes have to distinguish between what you see and hear and what is really going...
...Sorensen's and a host of other programs attract an amazing 6 million participants a month. Says a student at Jon Devlin's Dancercise in New York: "My main reason for coming is my head. If I miss three days, I have to come in for my fix." Says Devlin: "There is something about dancing and music that's magic-it lifts people up." Whether the reason is the music, or the camaraderie, or the behavior-mod technique of encouraging women to smile and shout during the workouts, Dancercise has reversed the trend of the lonely long...
...last summer, but chances are that he will win a large share of his second round of cuts. Even if the defense budget is pruned more than he would like, the Administration's economic program will be far from crippled. Reagan never promised a quick fix for the economy, and despite the growing chorus of worries about Reaganomics, the program needs time to be fully tested. Only then will the country be able to judge fairly whether or not the President's policies work. -By James Kelly. Reported by David Beckwith and Neil MacNeil/Washington
...women's soccer team almost missed Tuesday night's game against Brown in Providence when its bus suffered an electrical failure in Attleboro--just 15 minutes from the capital at 3:45. After the bus driver had spent a half hour attempting to fix the problem, he and head coach Bob Scalise walked off seeking help. About an hour later--but before Scalise got back--a commercial bus line, the Providence Express, picked up the women...