Word: setups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present state insurance setup is almost ideally suited to the cowboys. Under it, everybody must buy insurance, at a cuy-wide rate determined by the recklessness of the city's driving population as a whole. As a result, the biggest daredevil in Cambridge pays no more for his oft-used policy than the most careful driver. Since damages are easy to collect from Massachusetts juries, the cowboys can charge their repairs to the insurance companies and drive on to more and better crashes...
...producers take advantage of this setup to create suspense. Almost in the manner of a Saturday afternoon serial story, the action flits about different situations as Commander Brennan and his men track down the squad that has been engaged in a series of explosions. No dialogue is wasted, no character is without a function...
Quarterback John McKinnen, a show-nothing player all season, stepped off the bench tonight to score two touchdowns and setup another with his field direction as Boston College edged the University of Detroit, 23 to 20. Boston stopped Detroit on the one-yard line in the final play of the game...
...Bird Cage) is the latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...
...same can be said of the University's educational setup in 1952. Trapped between inflated costs and an endowment that refuses to budge beyond four million dollars, Colgate must stow away its ambitious expansion plans while it tries to keep its budget balanced...