Word: slots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tried to break his contract, or at least reduce his projected schedule. NBC, however, refused to let him out. Though he makes network brass as nervous as they make him, NBC is desperate for a hit. The Richard Pryor Show has been strategically placed in the same Tuesday night slot as ABC's Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley, which are No. 1 and No. 2 in the ratings. With his fresh, unpredictable humor, Pryor might just be the wild hit that could topple the opposition...
...owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which owns the La Costa, the chic California oasis where Fitzsimmons has golfed with former President Richard Nixon, owes the fund $66.6 million. According to the latest annual report almost half of these loans were classified as "uncollectible...
...Square's madness starts reaching a dangerous crescendo, if the Organic Chemistry starts looming up all around, if your summer roomie is a lunatic, then you only need drop out of sight into the subway station, drop a quarter into the slot, and leave Harvard behind. It's cheap escape...
...estimate more than $450 million has been invested in Ireland by U.S. companies ranging from General Electric, which makes components for color-television sets, to Bally Manufacturing Corp., the Chicago slot-machine company, which exports one-armed bandits from Dublin to Sydney. "We couldn't do business in Australia without that Dublin plant," says Bill O'Donnell, Bally's president, "because Ireland qualifies for special treatment on tariffs there." Although Keating is concentrating his efforts on the U.S., he recently lured Beecham Group Ltd., the big British pharmaceutical firm, to invest in a 50-acre site near...
...John Adams '66, lecturer on Music and director of several University choral societies, became the focus of a controversy in the Music Department over whether or not he should be recommended for the tenured slot of Senior Lecturer...