Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drive raised approximately $13 million, financing the first phase of the athletic complex last spring, which includes Blodgett Pool and the Indoor Track and Tennis (ITT) facility...
Although the department had sufficient funds to build Blodgett Pool and the ITT, the $13 million received from the fund-raising drive will not supply an endowment to cover the $300,000-a-year operating costs of the two buildings, he added. $17 million was originally slated for phase...
Carlin harbors no intentions of decaying, of joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...
...required contribution of $ 13 million a year by soccer-pool promoters to help the sport, among other ways, by supporting amateur clubs and combatting stadium hooliganism. The commission also urged stricter control over commercial lotteries, which came in for the heaviest criticism: "The situation we have discovered is scandalous. There is wholesale disregard of the law, commercial exploitation to a totally unacceptable degree and, we strongly suspect, a good deal of plain dishonesty...
...first days settle into exciting weeks and rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest