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Word: parker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since Parker Bros. brought out Monopoly in the depths of the Depression, economic bad times have spawned board games for tycoons manques. Even apple sell ers could feel as rich as a Rockefeller if they had two hotels on Boardwalk. Business parlor games are again popular this recession-haunted Christmas. Avalon Hill, a Baltimore games manufacturer, reports that business games are now selling just behind always popular war contests like Third Reich and Gettysburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Coffee-Table Tycoons | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

...numbers fool you. Saturday night, B.U. simply blew away one of the top teams in the east, Providence College, in an 8-1 massacre (although 11 Friars were absent from the affair--rumors of a curfew violation during P.C.'s western trip). Terrier coach Jackie Parker deadpans, "everything we shot went into...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers At Bright Tonight | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

...Parker is a fox, and his teams don't stay down for long. Last year, the Terriers hit bottom, with an 8-14 ECAC mark. This year, with forward Todd Johnson back on the team and a young, strong defense anchored by goaltender Jeff Weisman, Parker shouldn't have to settle...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers At Bright Tonight | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

...problem, everyone knows, has been defense. But with a bit of rearranging (Mark Fusco, teaming with Scott Sangster, will move back to his customary right point spot), some inspiration (the home-opener crowd) and a little less pressure ("Our strength is our defense"--Parker), the blueliners might have an easier time...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Terriers At Bright Tonight | 12/2/1980 | See Source »

Beatrice A. Parker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1980 | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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