Word: signed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beer, director of Player Personnel for the Stars, said yesterday that the team is "close to terms" in their bid to sign Jim Stoeckel, this year's quarterback and most valuable player...
...looking to sign Jim Stoeckel," Beer said. "We've been talking to him and we're close to terms...
...York Stars, enfranchised two months ago as the Boston Bulls, are maintaining a Boston identity. In their announcement to sign DeMars, they named New England Colonials general manager Bob Keating as vice president...
...some 2 million people, most of whom are illiterate. With no railroads, no direct access to the sea and only 120 miles of paved highway, the C.A.R. (formerly the French colony of Ubangi-Shari) has long been one of Africa's most benighted backwaters, and shows every sign of remaining just that for a long time to come. Aside from its one lucrative industry, diamond mining, the country's most striking feature is its ruler, Jean-Bedel Bokassa, 53, a former sergeant in the French army who may be the continent's most brutal tyrant...
Chimps are perhaps the most intelligent of all apes, and others before Lana have acquired sign-language vocabularies of more than 100 words. But Lana's teaching system is based on a computer, which she can operate at will by pressing large keys on a console. On each of the variously colored keys is a different geometric form; the forms are the words-or "lexigrams," as the scientists call them-of Yerkish. When Lana presses a key, the symbol flashes overhead on a screen and its English equivalent is reproduced on a teleprinter in a nearby control room...