Word: racketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maybe Harvard can claim more Noble Prize recipients than any other university in the country, but the award for developing an item of "real value" may go to a Princeton professor-turned-inventor, creator of what he claims is the world's first "mathematically perfect" tennis racket...
...James Bond, it suits my image." Jill thought it was too dangerous. While they were debating it, the light suddenly went on in the stack next to them. Mindlessly, they hightailed it around the stack and managed to keep the obstacle between them and the janitor, who heard the racket but was able to catch only a glimpse of Jill on the way to the stairs. They switched stair-cases at C level and, out of habit, made for One and home base, which was still dark. Shortly thereafter, the same janitor came along snapping on lights and looked...
Celebrity endorsements were just as popular then. Big Bill Tilden's name appeared on a junior tennis racket ($3.19), and Pitcher Dazzy Vance's signature was stamped on the horsehide cover of baseballs (59?). More enduring is the Mickey Mouse watch ($2.29), though now Mickey tells time with electronic digits ($16.99) instead of white-gloved hands and must compete with Star Wars models. Another big name in the 1933 catalogue was that of Bird Expert H. Fogg, who had just taken charge of Sears' bird and pet departments and endorsed a line of canaries...
...WANTED Dalla Chiesa dead, and for good reason. Sicily has become the operational headquarters for the booming international drug traffic racket, from the poppy fields of West Asia to the streets of New York. There's more than just profits in the Mafia business, however, at times the gangsters have been known to dominate local justices in peasant areas. Many believe the Mafia may even control the votes of up to 30 parliamentary deputies. With that much at stake, it is hardly surprising that since 1981,222 people have been identified as victims of organized crime executions in Palermo alone...
Meanwhile, third singles and Captain Adam Beren handled Alan Leathers so mercilessly that Leathers spent much of the match throwing his racket in disgust...