Word: majored
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...another year, until a more permanent solution is worked out. To that end, the plan calls for the "voluntary reintegration" of the contras into Nicaraguan political life or their "voluntary regional relocation," language that makes it evident they are finished as a fighting force, barring an act of major treachery by the Sandinistas...
...otherwise respectable institutions of higher learning put up with all this? Because big-time sports, whose popularity is fueled by ever increasing TV coverage, are major moneymakers. For one thing, a winning team attracts alumni donations. Far more lucrative, however, are the direct revenues generated by sporting events. Last year's NCAA basketball tournament was worth $68.2 million in gross receipts; the four schools advancing to the final round got $1.2 million each. Virtually all those funds go to athletic departments rather than academic budgets. Top coaches share in the wealth, often making several times as much as university presidents...
...Butler and Scurry know as Sam Perry is really Richard Perry, a gambler who has twice been convicted on federal charges of sports bribery. In 1974 Perry was convicted in connection with a major New York betting scandal at Roosevelt and Yonkers raceways. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison and fined $10,000. In 1984 Perry pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sports bribery as part of the notorious Boston College point-shaving scheme. At the trial, recalls Edward McDonald, head of the Organized Crime Strike Force in Brooklyn, N.Y. Perry was referred to as Richie...
Fringe politics, of either the left or the right, has rarely counted for much in staid and cautious postwar West Germany. But last week, to the shock of the country's political establishment, that dictum was punctured in both directions. In two major cities, West Berlin and Frankfurt, left-wing alliances of Social Democrats and environmental-activist Greens became majority factions. Both cities have also seen a resurgence of ultra-right parties: anti-immigrant Republicans in West Berlin and National Democrats in Frankfurt. The National Democrats, once a refuge of unreconstructed Nazis, gained 6.6% of the vote and representation...
Those gains came at the expense of the center-right coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party, which has held national power for the past six years. The Christian Democrats now control the mayor's office in only one of West Germany's major cities, Stuttgart. And in both West Berlin and Frankfurt, the Free Democrats failed to receive the 5% of the vote needed to gain representation in the local councils, a disturbing omen for a small swing party that seldom polls more than 10% anywhere...