Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some people collect rare stamps or coins. Sonny Werblin, president of the American Football League's New York Jets, collects quarterbacks. He had three last season, and they cost him $48,000. Now he has six. He picked up Virginia Tech's Bob Schweickert for a song, but he had to shell out $200,000 for Notre Dame's Heisman Trophy winner, John Huarte. And to land Alabama's Joe Namath, he went all the way to $400,000-the highest price ever paid for a rookie in the history of pro football...
...lights in the tomb, telephones and all the paraphernalia of civilization and modern archeological science, they are patiently removing and restoring the canopies and accessories surrounding the sarcophagus of the Pharaoh. But the casket itself will probably not be opened this year, nor will two other chambers crammed with rare objects. The chief problem of the investigators is to keep the material reasonably intact. The golden screen is in momentary danger of crumbling to dust...
Color, a moot subject in Hollywood for the last 20 years, still engages the attention of cinema engineers though most major producers are skeptical about using it except on rare occasions...
Science reporting was a relatively rare journalistic pursuit. Whatever attention scientific matters received in the press was permeated with either an excess of awe or an abundance of naivete, or both. Even so, TIME decided to take science seriously, and its very first issue carried seven stories on the subject. One concerned the proposal of an inventor named...
...almost 100% effective. This does not mean that polio will be suddenly abolished. But it could mean that as vaccination becomes universal for children, whole generations will grow up free of the paralysis that has condemned so many to enfeebled limbs or iron lungs, eventually, polio can become as rare as smallpox-which U.S. doctors now rarey get a chance to identify...