Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February 14: In their worst loss since B.C., the hoopsters are derailed by Princeton, 84-72, in New Jersey while Dartmouth is romping over Penn in Philadelphia. The Crimson makes less than a third of its field goal attempts and records only one assist in the 22-point trouncing...
...cocaine problem, he is suspended with pay, treated at the team's expense and reactivated. The second time, he is suspended without pay; the third time, banned for a minimum of two years and possibly for life. John Drew of the Utah Jazz has achieved the last plateau; New Jersey's Micheal Ray Richardson and Chicago's Quintin Dailey teeter on the edge. Moreover, an independent narcotics expert carries both the owners' and the players' license to order spot checks...
...month in premiums, vs. $15.50 now. Shortening hospital stays may be desirable, but the process throws a greater burden on nursing-home and home health-care services. "But more home-care visits are not being funded," says Susan Lang, an official of Visiting Health Services in New Jersey. Indeed, Reagan's budget proposes that, for the first time, Medicare beneficiaries themselves pick up $5 of the cost of each home health-care visit...
...odds were so staggering that no one had ever bothered to figure them out. Even though Evelyn Marie Adams had already won $3.9 million in New Jersey's Pick-6 lottery last October, it did not stop her from plunking down another buck. In fact, she raised her weekly total bet from 60 to 100 tickets. And, wonder of numbers, she hit again last week, this time for nearly $1.5 million, becoming the first two-time winner of a million-dollar-plus state lottery. Stunned officials had to consult a statistics professor before determining that Adams had just beaten odds...
...Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs or other, to roll on the grass in a nearby park." On the procedure itself: "The man, whose face looked like soiled marzipan, said he was going...