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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...U.S.F.L., which needed to win megabucks just to stay in business, the verdict may spell doom. The outcome was the sudden-death climax of a game that had more fumbles than the sorriest preseason scrimmage. The U.S.F.L.'s suit was watched with immense curiosity by millions of fans who recognize that pro sports are as much about greed as glory and cheered on by local boosters who feel that no city can call itself big league without a pro-football team. More than mere football, the struggle was redolent of the battles among 19th century steel and rail barons...
...camaraderie with politicians. They drink together, travel together, schmooze together. If the media tried to establish a better understanding with the scientific community, then perhaps scientific coverage would be more like political coverage, with the reporter analyzing and thinking while reporting, not just asking the researcher how to spell the big words...
...lyrics of the old song have been given a cruel gloss by the pitiless two-week-old heat wave that has baked the life out of the Southeast. Ten days of sauna-like temperatures of 100 degrees or more have exacerbated four months of drought, perhaps the worst dry spell in the region's history. So far, 15 people have died of heat prostration. Peanuts, hay and cotton have shriveled; the agricultural loss in Georgia is already estimated at $140 million. In North Carolina, some 200,000 chickens have died -- suffocated, in effect, by the hot, still...
...expected to announce the deal early this week, will have billings of about $7.5 billion. Ted Bates, named for the late adman who started the company in 1940, has coined famous slogans for such clients as Prudential ("Get a piece of the rock") and Rolaids ("How do you spell relief...
...dancing in the opening number, though marred slightly by imperfect lighting, casts a magical spell which lasts for much of the show...