Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...players who pass him the ball. If the Celtics play at all like they did against Cleveland last Friday night--the final score was Cavaliers 112, Celtics 84--they will dip below .500 and find themselves in a struggle for fourth place in the Atlantic Division with the New Jersey Nets...
...Nets are improperly named. They should be called the New Jersey Backboards, because that's all they have hit recently...
...time may be ripe. Since 1983, auto-insurance premiums have climbed three times as fast as the inflation rate. Among the causes: bad roads, rising medical costs and growing traffic congestion. In New Jersey, where drivers pay the highest average rates in the U.S., a group of consumers pounded a car with a sledgehammer last February to demonstrate their rage. Each state regulates insurance separately, a practice that contributes to wide price differences from place to place. Several Midwestern states have been able to control insurance costs to some degree by passing strong no-fault laws, under which drivers file...
...Jersey, which has the highest traffic density in the U.S., motorists were stunned last summer to learn that state-imposed surcharges had increased their car premiums by some 20%. The sudden increase reflected the state's need to bail out a fund that insures high-risk motorists and has fallen $2 billion in debt. While New Jersey lawmakers toughened the state's no-fault insurance laws, they remain too weak to prevent motorists from bringing costly lawsuits...
...Update: Seen at Princeton's Baker Rink Saturday night: a larged-framed figure wearing a Harvard hockey jersey, a red and black headband and dark sunglasses...