Word: payday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hagler sampler: "Don't play with them, bust them up." No one could blame Hagler for the shortage of competition leading up to and during his three championship years, but the fact remained that Duran, such as he was, represented Hagler's first eminent opponent and premium payday (possibly $10 million apiece). For a change, people feared for Duran's safety. Recalling "No más," even Hagler supposed, "He could be wanting to stand up and take a beating now," a theory that faded a few days before the fight when Duran eyed Hagler and pronounced...
...truck terminal in Brooklyn, got his supply from a man wearing a ski mask at a bustling "drug market" five minutes from work. "I'd go during my breaks and at lunch, picking up four to eight nickel [$5] bags at a time," he says. "If it was payday, I could run through my whole check [$515]." Joey, now in a drug-abuse treatment program, says he is "trying to find a place where there is no dope...
...welterweight thicket on a course Manager Angelo Dundee had carefully laid to the championship. It started with Luis ("the Bull") Vega at the Civic Center in Baltimore. Most boxers start in four-round preliminaries, but Leonard's debut was a six-round main event and a $40,000 payday. It was televised nationally...
...could not be easily seized by the company's creditors. On Wednesday the Braniff board of directors took the final decision to file for bankruptcy. At 5 p.m. employees were told unofficially to clean out their desks and not to come to work the next day, which was payday...
American Express received 80 Expressline questions in the first eight days of the program. The most common query: could the Dec. 28 payday be moved up to Dec. 24? The company has now changed the date...