Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even so, there were enough crunching blocks and backfield razzle-dazzle to satisfy the fans. The general idea of a draft is for the weakest teams to pick first, thereby spreading the wealth. But the two days of haggling over 445 players produced such a blizzard of trades among the 25 teams that hardly a single player ended up where expected...
Only last December, the Federal Communications Commission agreed that a merger designed to turn Interna tional Telephone & Telegraph Corp. and American Broadcasting Co. into a $2 billion telecommunications company was a good idea. Last week the FCC changed its mind. The reason for the reversal was simple: the merger is being strongly protested by the Justice Department's antitrust division - an agen cy that easily outranks the FCC in Wash ington's hierarchy. Bowing to the anti trust division's argument that the ITT-ABC merger might impede competition and open ABC public affairs pro gramming...
...about the Bick at three in the morning. A film of dirty water covers the proliferating H's on the tile floor. The fluorescent lights shine unmercifully on the naked orange, brown, and green wall panels. And the pastoral murals along both sides of the room are somebody's idea of a bad joke...
...they'd traded away two picks--they'd take me. And that's exactly the way it worked out. It was sort of like my coming to Harvard. I was recruited by dozens of schools across the country, but I ended up staying in Boston. I honestly have no idea why the Cowboys reneged. I'm just as glad Boston drafted me, because I'll want to build a career here afterwards, and the Patriots' lineup will be easier to break into. I don't have much experience as a pass-catcher, but I'm sure...
...similarity of the two random samples (from the Classes of 1964 and 1965) in the senior years makes us suspect that there may be something to the idea of a typical Harvard pattern. If a given class varies from this on entrance, slight though this variation be, there is a shift toward the typical pattern by graduation...