Word: graved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will sully the game's reputation and lead fans to believe the sport is being fixed. In fact, an estimated $15 billion to $30 billion in illegal bets are already being wagered on sports nationally?$1.5 billion in New York City alone, much of it on football?without stirring grave suspicions of foul play. Top officials of organized basketball, baseball and hockey also vociferously oppose legalized betting on their sports though this nonetheless seems likely to follow across the nation. The more deeply held moral objection to sports betting stems from the fear that the states may get into wagering...
...Burt's work go unchallenged during his lifetime? Says Philip Vernon, a collaborator of Burt's now at Alberta's University of Calgary: "There were certainly grave doubts, although nobody dared to put them into print because Burt was so powerful." In fact, he was powerful enough to see his ideas on heredity and intelligence translated into educational policy. As a government adviser in the 1940s, he played a prominent role in setting up the three-tier British school system that pigeonholed students on the basis of an IQ test given at age eleven...
...first few meets were any indication, the Crimson was leaning toward the grave. The harriers turned in only average performances in the first few meets on the schedule...
...luck that the tomb of Tutankhamun, pharaoh of Egypt from 1334 to 1325 B.C., escaped the predations of grave robbers over the millenniums. Largely luck too that British Archaeologist Howard Carter found the royal tomb in 1922 after 15 years of fruitless searching through the sere Valley of the Kings. Perhaps the timing was also lucky when J. Carter Brown, director of Washington's National Gallery of Art, began negotiating with Egyptian authorities in 1974 for a U.S. showing of the tomb's contents: a wave of pro-American feeling was just sweeping Cairo. In any case, millions...
...competent? Did he leave a will? Who are the rightful heirs to his estimated $2 billion estate? Last week, seven months after Hughes died of kidney failure aboard a Texas-bound private airplane, none of those questions had been answered; Howard Hughes was generating as much mystery from the grave as he had in life. In the most bizarre quest for information yet, a neuropathologist will soon examine a portion of Hughes' brain that has been pickled and preserved in a jar on a shelf in Houston's Methodist Hospital. His mission: to look for evidence of disease...