Word: hires
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Diego, while Elway was envisioning his five titles, Williams was trying to answer the question "How long have you been a black quarterback?" (As far as he could recall, Williams seemed to turn black about the time he left Grambling.) "I'm quite sure the Redskins didn't hire me," he kept saying, "just to be the first black quarterback in the Super Bowl...
Says Lowell House committee chairman Megan K. Jenks '89, "We usually hire Christian and the Infidels because they play covers with a few originals...
...living in Cambridge, was originally slated to be among the 300 adults and 250 children who put in an appearance at saturday's event, but she was forced to cancel her plans because of illness. Also invited but unable to attend was Robert Urich of TV's "Spenser for Hire," which is set in Boston. Urich was stuck in traffic in Connecticut, according to a public relations officer for the event...
After Hoyos was kidnaped, a man claiming to represent the "extraditable ones" told a Medellin radio station that the Attorney General had been executed for "betraying his country" by favoring the treaty. President Virgilio Barco Vargas responded by announcing plans to hire thousands of new policemen and judges and sharply increase sentences for drug-related crimes...
...According to Pravda and other publications, the republic's leading government and Communist Party officials shared in the embezzlement of $6.5 billion during the 1970s and early 1980s. They also permitted Mafia-style crime families to thrive on such supposedly capitalist rackets as drugs, prostitution, gambling and murder for hire. A number of officials helped themselves to the republic's cotton-growing revenues by overstating the size of the republic's cotton crops, then skimming off part of the proceeds. Among those recently arrested are Uzbekistan's former premier, the local party second secretary and dozens of Communist functionaries...