Word: slotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beverage, it is widely available. Cooperative restaurants enjoy a fairly brisk business, at least among those who can afford the prices (lunches and dinners often go for $20 to $30 a person, without drinks or wine). Major hotels offer Western joint- venture seekers many distinctly unsocialist hard-currency attractions -- slot machines, for one -- while out on the sidewalks, better-dressed young people hurry by, oblivious to the stiff-knuckled old women sweeping the streets with birch-branch brooms...
Many former UNLV players ultimately work as slot-machine hosts, casino bosses and maitre d's on the Vegas strip. Tarkanian says sometimes casino operators tell him which players they want to hire even before graduation. Says the coach: "We tell the kids if they keep their noses clean, this town will take care of them. They all stay here. Nobody ever leaves...
Time Chairman Richard Munro and Warner Chairman Steven Ross, who agreed to share power as co-chief executives of the new company, were confident that their deal would withstand any challenges. Said Munro: "We are not for sale." Time President N.J. Nicholas will take Munro's slot as co-chief executive of Time Warner if Munro retires in 18 months as planned. To strengthen their position, the two companies have also agreed to exchange some 10% of each other's stock in advance of the merger...
When the tournament selections were announced Sunday afternoon in St. Paul, Minn., the Black Bears (29-11) grabbed the number-one slot in the East seedings...
...Lawrence (29-5), the ECAC champion, was surprised. Thinking they had a chance for one of the tournament's two byes, the Saints were given the number-three slot...