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...inner-city health conference. At the University of Akron, Mike Woodford, 31, stayed on as assistant football coach after winning $15 million in 1989. He was going through a divorce at the time and gave half the money to his ex-wife. In Virginia a relatively modest $1.4 million win enabled Old Dominion University student Jeff Berry, 20, to switch from a business major to the career he really wanted: teaching...
...shrewd organization nervous. The Pittsburgh Pirates, with a core of fine young stars, got that now-or-never feeling this year. Why? Because slugger Bobby Bonilla is expected to become a zillionaire elsewhere this winter, and Most Valuable Player candidate Barry Bonds may walk next October. Pittsburgh, in a modest TV market, certainly can't afford them both. So the bucks -- and the Bucs -- stop here...
...contract law, discussing how to promote economic development on Indian reservations, or writing papers on topics like "The Relative Nature of Property in the Context of Bankruptcy." She works on the faculty senate and the dean's committee and advises minority students, often inviting them to dinner at her modest one- story brick house...
...Modest by Wall Street standards, these scandals are no small potatoes in Ireland. Prime Minister Charles Haughey is sufficiently close to some fiddle figures to be suffering a drastic drop in popularity...
Undeclared presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy delivered what many considered his first election speech of the campaign season before a modest crowd of 60 at Harvard Law School last night...