Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while Fish is usually full of praise for the three senior teammates, they are equally grateful for his coaching. Sands says it's hard to say how much Fish helped his game, while Grossman says he's changed nearly every stroke of his game since becoming a mainstay of Harvard tennis...
...case, much of the internecine warfare was over when and how to sell off parts of the company, not whether to do it. Two weeks ago, management announced that it had reached a $410 million deal with Allied Corp. to sell GAF's chemical business, its mainstay since the days when it was known as General Aniline & Film, a part of I.G. Farben. The firm was seized as German property by the Government during World War II, but it was turned back to private shareholders in 1965. Selling off its chemical operations would leave GAP with little more than...
Slot machines are a big business in France and a mainstay of many bars and cafes. More than 30,000 of what the French call machines a sous (penny-in-the-slot machines) swallowed up some $2 billion in francs last year in 3,000 watering holes and arcades around the country. A machine offering a popular game like jackpots costs nearly $3,000 but may bring in up to $15,000 a month. The slots can be vital for attracting patrons to many cafes or bars. Complains one Paris publican: "If you don't have machines in your...
...CYNICAL and streetwise crew in the Bronx district attorney's office have isolated a new cause of death that they've dubbed Lincolnitis. Named after Lincoln Hospital, an understaffed mainstay of its South Bronx neighborhood, Lincolnitis is said to afflict a wide range of patients who expire at Lincoln after entering with less-than-fatal maladies...
...September 14, 1972-February 28, 1983): Last night saw the death of an old friend, a mainstay of America's popular culture. M*A*S*H offered us a funny bone in the skeleton of the Korean War for 11 years, nearly four times the length of the actual...