Word: franchisee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than eight months before the Breakers' opening kickoff last weekend at Boston University's Nickerson Field, the new franchise initiated negotiations with Harvard over the use of the Stadium as the town's home field. Harvard Stadium was seen by the Breakers as ideal in size and accessibility.
Exactly as reported in the Boston Globe Feb. 19, Walker struck and signed an odd pact with the New Jersey Generals, the U.S.F.L. franchise handiest to Madison Avenue. The deal carried an oral escape clause he exercised the next morning, the same day he told a press assembly, "I didn...
Until now, the British had lived happily with only fuzz on the air in the early morning. But when the ubiquitous David Frost, leading a group of investors and television veterans, was granted a morning franchise by the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) in December 1980, the BBC would be damned...
The new leaders also announced at a meeting of mission holders in San Francisco last October that the technology center would audit the financial records of each mission, charging $15,000 a day for the procedure, and that all franchise holders would be put on the cans for a security...
In the dim first days of the Dallas franchise, when the Cowboys waited until their second season to win their first game, the Redskins were scarcely better. By that second year, Dallas tied the Redskins. Come the third season, the Cowboys massacred them in Washington, 38-10. Football fans in...