Word: parlays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sheila Doyle, a strong-willed woman who has recently changed her life by jettisoning her husband and their four children. She tries to alter Bobby's life as well, when he is assigned a major story and learns that a popular, born-again Christian baseball pitcher, who hopes to parlay his piety into a political career, deliberately drove a rival player to his death...
Flynn relishes his outsider status and is determined to parlay it into the support of labor unions and city minority leaders...
...able to raise enough funds to fight an advertising war with White. Flynn and king are the most visible contenders, but they will probably be fighting for the same constituency Finnegan, because he is such a late entrant, may never figure into the race unless he can parlay his popularity as a radio host into a healthy campaign bank account. And DiCara and Kiley must show that they have more than a narrow constituency...
There is, of curse, a graphic and unpleasant response to that question, but a polite student with no career plans has only two ways to answer: the gong way ("I'm planning to parlay it into a billiondollar rubber empire in the South American jungle") or the honest way--"I have no idea...
Business representatives and students tried simultaneously to sell themselves to each other. But while the reps could brag about state-of-the-art electronics or big money investment choices, many students found it difficult to parlay their liberal arts education into one of these fast-growth industry positions...