Word: gaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coaches' selections of Price and Byrd for the first team were unanimous and rightfully so. Price, who also garnered Player of the Year honors, has plagued opposing defenses for three years, averaging at least eight rebounds per game and scoring in double figures. This year, his point production rose to 19.1, second only to Davis, who averaged...
...Somewhere in there, tucked away under the folds of our brains, is a unique sense of purpose; we must exist for a reason, we think. William Wharton's soaring Birdy is about that sense of purpose. Birdy and Al--the novel's heroes--come to realize life is a game worth playing, not merely a block of time to pass away. They force their minds...
...send troops. Then when his people drove him from the country, we switched to another loser. Anyone could see that [Shahpour] Bakhtiar [whom the Shah named Prime Minister before he left Iran] was a loser. For a little more than a month, Bakhtiar played the game of losing, with us patting him on the back and providing him with support. Bakhtiar predictably is gone down the pipe also." Bill felt that the U.S. had thereby lost-though not irretrievably-a chance to influence the Khomeini-installed government...
...Minister Sheik Ali Khalifa al-Sabah declared a price increase of 9.3%, retroactive to Feb. 20. He blamed the decision on what he called price profiteering by oil companies, implying that if Big Oil was somehow ripping off the public, Kuwait was going to get in on that game...
...much is at stake for the world to tolerate for long the problem of rising prices from erratic suppliers. As one top oil executive put it in London: "The game is too big to be taken advantage of in this way. The economic penalty of imposing sudden price increases is lethal...