Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revenue has multiplied by 13 times since 1956, "players' salaries have increased less than 3 times over." Even though Pete Rozelle virtuously forced Joe Namath to give up his Bachelors III nightclub because of alleged patronage by gamblers, Parrish charges the league's very roots were sunk from the start in the subsoil of big-time gambling. The late Tim Mara, longtime owner of the New York Giants, was once a legal bookmaker at New York race tracks. Art Rooney supposedly bought the Pittsburgh Steelers after winning $256,000 at Saratoga Race Track in 1927. Baltimore Colts Owner...
...should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen the 103-mile canal in four to six months at a cost of $40 million. The Israelis believe that the job might well take upwards...
...more than a bucolic communion of man, plow and earth. Says Erv: "A farmer these days has to be a good buyer and seller-that's the important thing. But he must also be an electrician, soil analyst and veterinarian. If he isn't, he's sunk." Each winter Erv and his sons attend courses in nearby towns given by the Extension Service and firms that try to keep farmers abreast of advancing farm technology. Lately Walters has added the omnipresent computer to his list of farm aids. For $80 a year a computer firm analyzes...
...heroin scandal only heightens already tense relations between Washington and Saigon. After the mauling of ARVN troops in Laos, many South Vietnamese are blaming the U.S. for sending in their troops to do an American job. "At a time when relations between the two countries have sunk to an all-time low," reports TIME Saigon Bureau Chief Jonathan Larsen, "the heroin scandal ticks away like a time bomb in the corner." Since politicking is already beginning for next October's presidential elections, the heroin smuggling will clearly be a major campaign issue...
...know how. They were frightened out of their wits." Because of another communication gap, Boise Cascade's state-approved plan to create a hotel and resort complex on the island of Hawaii started a furor among people opposed to just about all speculative subdivisions. The company has sunk $30 million into the development but has not yet sold the first...