Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only important in terms of how much it can make them. With season tickets, television contracts and possible gambing a professional team doesn't even need to win to make money. In fact, one of the best ways to keep costs down and maximize profits is to get rid of older players even though they might perform better than gullible rookies willing to sign any seemingly big money contract thrown their way. Players are enticed with deferred payments, cash bonuses, and unfulfillable incentive clauses which look good in the newspaper but even better on tax forms. Even when players...
...channel analyzers. Stacks of nuclear-instrumentation modules. IBM card punches and readers-obsolete by our standards. But if a country has nothing? Scintillation crystals. Electronic balances." Grothus supplied the technical props for the Karen Silkwood movie. He was horrified when they were returned. "You can't get rid of this stuff," he moans. "Do you need a five-beam oscilloscope? Nobody on earth has as much stuff as I do, and I'm not sure technology has any value at all." He pauses to admire a high-speed camera that takes 1,000 frames a second...
...start of the season, Landry's message to the team had been "If we don't win a single game, we're going to get rid of this drug problem." By N.F.L. standards, their problem was moderate. No indictments, but the names of five prominent players came up via a federal wiretap at the trial of a Brazilian cocaine smuggler. At the same time, the Houston Oilers have had two incidences of possession. So in Texas drugs have been added to the holy coordinates of football: a religious coach, sideline sex, boots, North Dallas Forty, jeans, Semi...
...small fry compared to the other operations. Converted from a men's room in the basement of Lowell's dining hall, the snack bar is really more of a coffee house than a grill, according to House Committee Chairman Judith Kessler '84, who adds, " we haven't gotten rid of the urinals in the room...
...just want to get rid of the graffiti as soon as possible and we'II worry about the rest later," he said...