Word: sports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been created to fill a void between football and baseball season, but today, baseball substitutes for no sport. It may even be unparalled in offering some the best upsets in sports--particularly college--history...
...collegiate or international swimmers who appear in so many glossy photos this month, but models wearing suits with prices that vary inversely with surface area. Hockey, apparently, becomes dull after a few months. So Sports Illustrated, Inside Sport and Sport all sell out to quasiporn...
...Inside Sport, may reap even more profit from its February swimsuit issue. Luckily its pictures of Dallas star Charlene Tilton have drawn the attention of a gossip tabloid, and a few trashy articles about an actress may be all that's necessary for Inside Sport to sell more copies than it has in years...
...confidence in the police, reading every morning and watching on TV every night the stories about shootouts endangering innocent bystanders -- start arming themselves in case they have to join the battle. It used to be that the great majority of American gun owners bought their weapons for hunting or sport (target shooting, for instance). But recent surveys show nearly 50% mentioning self-protection as their primary reason. Says Mark Warr, a sociologist at the University of Texas: "It's a giving up on the system. People have lost confidence in the ability of local government to control crime. There...
...worked with Darman for years calls him a "past master of the three-cushion shot. He'll always travel the more difficult route, in part because he likes the sport, in part because that road invariably leaves him the greatest number of options in the service of the ultimate objective...