Word: pots
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...while, it looked like they could do it. However, reality settled in when he realized that there was not enough money left in the pot. According to the Crimson, the botched concert had cost the Council over $20,000, leaving a meager $16,600 to spend on the entire event. The obvious step was to approach the administration for financial support. Unfortunately, the help never came...
...production of “This is Our Youth,” at the Adams Pool Theater this weekend turns back time to the 1980s, when a conservative was in the White House, cocaine was huge, and rich New York teenagers sat lazily smoking pot subsidized by their allowance...
...number of Narayan's characters set out in the morning literally not knowing how or whether they will eat that night. In Four Rupees, a man is offered the job of recovering a treasured brass pot that has fallen down a well. He is horrified at the prospect of shinnying down 60 ft. into the unknown. Nevertheless, he succeeds. When he proudly brings his wages home, his wife looks at his disheveled state and decides he has robbed someone for the money. A similar outcome awaits the hero of A Horse and Two Goats. An old man, who daily pastures...
...harsh crystal sunlight of a South African winter, the black township of Daveyton (pop. 30,000) is a bleak monument to the law of the land: that blacks and whites shall live apart. Near the entrance to the township a large sign promises the people of Daveyton a POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW. But the little concrete houses that line the treeless streets, the dry, packed earth that everywhere passes for a garden, and the acrid smell of coal fires in the early-morning air are evidence of a far different reality. Last week the people...
...settlement kept alive a season of lively pennant races and record-breaking performances. But it did not go very far toward solving baseball's most critical financial problem: the growing gap between the rich clubs and the poor ones. Unlike pro football, which divides a pot of national televison money equally among its 28 teams, baseball relies more on local television revenue. The owners in big media markets, such as George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees and Peter O'Malley of the Los Angeles Dodgers, understandably are not eager to share their advantages with less well-endowed clubs, like...