Word: playing
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...opponents of the resolution said that $35,000 was too much money to gamble on such a proposition. "If we're going to throw around money like this, we might as well play the stock market," Finance Committee Chair David A. Battat '91 said of the original proposal to allot $50,000 for a concert...
...great game," Delaney Smith said. "Maine is a terrific team. They're either the best or one of the best teams we play all season. I am very, very proud that we stayed with them the whole game...
...bankers rightly point out that they must abide by relatively strict currency-reporting laws, while their counterparts in other countries play fast and loose. That discrepancy has prompted Washington to try to persuade the rest of the banking world to adopt the record-keeping system used by American institutions...
...these and other areas, America must play a leading role. Not only is the U.S., as a wealthy, technologically advanced nation, in a position to help others achieve sustainable development; the country also has a moral responsibility to do so. After all, the U.S. consumes a disproportionate amount of the world's resources and has inflicted more than its share of environmental damage. But perhaps the strongest argument for American leadership on the environment is an idealistic one. Ronald Reagan loved to sing paeans to America's unique role as "a city on a hill" -- an inspiring model of democracy...
Well, maybe not big Senior Baseball business. The eight S.P.B.A. owners, each of whom staked a reported $850,000 for the first season, are not expecting quick profits. With some games attracting as few as 100 paying customers, a team or two may fold before the scheduled February play-offs. The players, whose salaries average $23,000, won't get rich either. But what they want is to prove, to themselves and others, that there is life after Fan Appreciation Day. "Hell," says ex-Yankee Graig Nettles in the S.P.B.A. yearbook, "if I can stay in baseball, I may never...