Word: parlays
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...team parlay of Cornell and Dartmouth, which would yield about a 200 per cent profit, is an investment which makes buying AT&T stock look like a wild speculation...
That prosperity cum poverty parlay is, of course, the election-year daily double that President Johnson hopes to have pay off, and last week he took a substantive stride in the direction of the cashier's window. After two days of stormy debate, the Senate cut Johnson's anti-poverty program by only $15 million, to $947.5 million, and passed it by a resounding roll-call vote of 62 to 33. Fifty-two Democrats and ten liberal Republicans voted for the measure, while eleven Democrats, mostly Southern, and 22 Republicans, led by Barry Goldwater, cried...
...legislation. And if he does, he should suggest a bill paralleling last year's law. Although the brotherhoods will strongly oppose impartial arbitration because it will surely follow recommendations they dislike, President Johnson should not succumb to the pressure mounted by the unions, should not allow them to parlay political strength into unwarranted concessions from Congress...
...bill and why. He knew who was drunk. He knew who was out of town. He knew who was sleeping with whom. He influenced committee assignments. He influenced legislation. He came to be known as "the 101st Senator." And he indulged in some vast moonlighting schemes that helped him parlay his $19,612-a-year Government salary into a fortune...
...hopes to make money in big real estate ventures in the future will have to have enough financial strength to be able to wait a long time for his investment to pay off. It may well be that the days are over when such brash showmen as Zeckendorf could parlay a small stake into millions. The real estate entrepreneurs of the future are likely to be found among insurance companies (which now invest about 3% of their total assets in real estate) and big institutional investors, who will have success simply because they can afford to wait...