Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large part of the resurgimento of Big Apple ball can be attributed to a new school of coaches: young, ruthless recruiters like rebuilding specialist Tom Penders at Columbia, Jack Powers at Manhattan, Jimmy Valvano at Iona, Billy Raftery, first year Fordham mentor Dick Stewart, and CCNY's Floyd Layne...
...mystique, borrowed from TV game shows. In the Michigan lottery, finalists participate in an elaborate game show on prime-time TV that outdraws every other program on the air. People who make gambling their business are passionately anonymous. "It's sort of like sex," says a no-nonsense Manhattan punter. "If you score, it should be up to you whether you want to tell anyone about...
...need for a vigorous educational program to inform the public ?particularly adolescents?about the risks that are as much a part of gambling as its potential profits and pleasures. Dr. Sirgay Sanger, for example, director of the Parent-Child Interaction Program at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan believes: "We've become a very materialistic and success-oriented society that is tremendously influenced by mass communication, particularly TV. The effect on children is to indulge them into thinking they can do anything?but that, by hook or by crook, they need to have money to be successful...
...recession was causing such sharp cutbacks in new construction that few jobs were to be had. But Walker noticed that retailers kept on building new stores and remodeling old ones. He broke into the then staid field by refurbishing the shoe department of the Henri Bendel store in Manhattan. The result was so bright and tasteful that other merchants noticed it, and Walker suddenly found himself in demand. He now employs 35 people and does more than $15 million worth of store projects a year. In the U.S., his chief clients are various divisions of Federated Department Stores, the nation...
...named the Chase-Manhattan Bank, Morgan Guaranty, Citibank, Merrill-Lynch and Bankers' Trust as members of the Atomic Industrial Forum, a nuclear power lobby. These corporations own more than 70 per cent of the stock in utilities now building nuclear reactors, he said...