Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hamburgerology degree, the licensee must lay out an average of $150,000, at least half of it in cash. For that, he gets to lead a life regimented by Ray Kroc and subordinates. To begin with, the licensee has little choice of where he will operate. Headquarters executives pick out all the sites, buy (or sometimes lease) the land, arrange for construction of the store, and rent it with equipment to the licensee for 8.5% of gross, plus a 3% annual franchise fee. "We're just like the Mafia; we skim it right off the top" jokes a financial...
...biggest problem is that it's really hard to get drafted as a high pick if you're coming out of Harvard--you've got to have fantastic statistics. If you're one of the top five draft picks pro teams will give you a long look, but if you're not, they don't let you make any mistakes...
...near Veracruz, a three-story building was split in two, killing 19 people. Village after village offered the same vision of destruction and tragedy: young and old sifting through piles of adobe rubble, looking for something to salvage; men balancing wooden coffins on their heads, on the way to pick up their dead...
...executive producer of both the Riggs-Court and the Riggs-King matches, has brought suit against Tandem for allegedly not giving him "due attention." A more substantive suit has been filed by CBS, which presented the Riggs-Court match and insists that it was not given sufficient time to pick up its option for the upcoming clash. A hearing is scheduled for this week, but no one expects court action to stop the show...
...substantial improvement over the ugly iron claw of earlier days. But the artificial arm still had a serious deficiency. Because Aycock, 38, who lost his arm in a textile-mill accident, was unable to tell how much pressure he was exerting on anything he was trying to pick up or use, he risked breaking the gauges and other delicate items that he handled on the job in a Louisburg, N.C., automobile agency. Now Aycock's problem has been solved by a new development in prosthetics: an artificial arm with feeling...