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...another place, I think I might have been lost after basketball. Coach Tarkanian helps the players get to that point where they're real with themselves, and then the town generally offers them a living. It's not such a terrible deal." Stars parking cars may not be the jackpot, but they know when to fold...
...national squads. Spartak has been touring U.S. colleges for the past two weeks....Chris Biotti and Ed Krayer will take time off from the Harvard squad to play with the U.S. junior national team, and won't return to the Crimson until mid-January...UMD has "Power-Play" jackpot contest for the team's fans. As in professional baseball teams' Home Run Derbies, an entrant who correctly guesses the Bulldog to score on a particular power-play wins the jackpot. The award, which stood at $70 for the Harvard game, goes up $10 each time nobody wins...
...like device that can pick up the munching sounds of insects as they feed inside fruits and grains is being tested at a USDA laboratory in ) Gainesville, Fla. Not all methods are mechanical. In New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, beagles have been trained to detect contraband flora. Jackpot, J.F.K.'s first beagle, has sniffed out oranges, papayas and two 10- lb. mangoes -- as well as salami, ham, cheese, live birds and a can of lime- scented shaving cream...
...spot Herb in a Burger King store. The bespectacled actor was on a nationwide tour of Burger King outlets as part of a $40 million promotional campaign. The young man thought he had won a $5,000 prize, but Burger King, upon learning his age, denied him the jackpot and gave it to his friend David Brown, 16, who was with Jason that day. Reason: the rules of the contest, posted in all Burger King stores, said that winners had to be at least 16. The purpose of the restriction, said the company, was to discourage youngsters from hanging around...
...reduced the flow of billions upon billions of dollars from consuming countries to the producers. The so-called petrodollar drain of 1979-83 had contributed to the worst global economic slump since the Great Depression. But cheap oil will act as a giant tax cut, or perhaps a lottery jackpot, for the consumers and businesses of such large industrial countries as the U.S., West Germany and Japan. Many economists think that bargain petroleum will bring a go-go era of healthy growth that could last until the early 1990s. Citizens are likely to enjoy a garden of economic delights, including...