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Unable to shake a nine-point deficit incurred early in the first half, the women hoopsters fell to the Boston University Terriers, 63-44, at B.U.'s Case Athletic Center last night...
...Gilley's Bronco Shop Inc. in Houston to manufacture. The bionic beast is mounted on a pedestal and powered by a 5-h.p. electric motor that is operated by remote control. El Toro has graded levels of difficulty, working up from a bovine shimmy designated One to a shake-and-break Ten. The headless, vinyl-and-steel contraption was developed as a teaching aid for rodeo cowboys by New Mexico Inventor Joe Turner, who sold his patent to Saloonkeepers Mickey Gilley and Sherwood Cryer for $70-000 in 1979; it has since cleared at least $1 million profit...
Employers, in fact, often have legitimate reasons for letting older workers go. A company might conclude that a management shake-up is essential, or a firm with excessive overhead might decide that some high-salaried executives are expendable. Amtrak Lawyer Page Sharp stresses the risks inherent in executive-level positions. "If you want security," he argues, "you choose union jobs. But for bigger jobs and bigger bucks, you've got to be amenable to being wiped out by new management." When presented with such pragmatic arguments, however, juries tend to identify with the employee's predicament rather than...
...washed up at other teams, like Quarterback Jim Plunkett, and players other teams had washed their hands of, like Linebacker Ted Hendricks, and they have thrived. Such rehabilitations have embarrassed more than one team. Says Cleveland Coach Sam Rutigliano: "I won't trade with him, and when we shake hands, I check to be sure I still have five fingers." Davis' retreads and rejects are fiercely loyal to the man who saved their careers. Says Defensive End John Matuszak: "Oakland was my last shot. Al Davis decided to help this kid out. I'll never...
...parents with his sudden wedding to live-in Girlfriend Doria Palmieri, 29, a literary researcher. Four years earlier he had stunned them by dropping out of Yale to become a ballet dancer. And last month he created a stir by informing New York magazine that he would not shake hands with Jimmy Carter at the Inauguration because the President "has the morals of a snake." Said Ron: "I will never forgive the he way he called my father a racist and a warmonger," though he later regretted the outburst as an "unfortunate moment of candor...