Word: payes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instantly recognize the pattern of acts alleged in an investigative report to Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and in interviews with Rose's associates: bets on ten to 20 college basketball games at a time, losses of $400,000 to just one bookie in one spring, desperate borrowing to pay the debts, equally desperate searches for new bookmakers to replace those who would no longer extend Rose credit or even take his bets...
...lottery. All these housewives and welfare recipients are going to get hooked. Kids aren't going to get diapers and food. You can pick up almost any newspaper now and get the lines ((odds on sporting events)). You couldn't do that in my day; you had to pay for that service. All this information, it's just too accessible. It's just too easy...
...Howie, 53, board chairman of a Los Angeles advertising agency, has been earning good money legitimately since age 15, when he already owned a Long Island, N.Y., parking lot. Says he: "I used to walk around with $10,000 in my pocket, but my father-in-law had to pay the $300 mortgage each month." In New York he would borrow $30,000 to $50,000 a week and lose about 80% of it over a weekend. "Then I'd steal," he says. Sometimes he would pilfer racks of dresses off the streets in Manhattan's garment district and sell...
...combination. Although the initial merger deal had been hailed for being debt-free, Time Chairman J. Richard Munro argued that the cash flow of the two companies will be adequate to service the debt. "We hope we can avoid layoffs and asset sales," he said. "The best way to pay off the debt will be through growth." Several shareholders had said they would vote against the re-election of four directors, including Munro and President N.J. Nicholas, but the slate was elected with 74% of the votes cast, or 55% of outstanding shares...
...significant statistic, and Rose's famous ambition was to become the "first $100,000 singles hitter." His original minor-league salary was $400 a month. For being the National League's rookie of the year in 1963, he received a $5,000 raise that brought his annual pay to $12,500. Twenty years later, he was earning $10,000 a game...