Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tacklers for two successive 3-11 seasons with the hapless New York Jets. Joe Willie Namath's departure for the Los Angeles Rams as a waived free agent was the exit not of a sun-kissed superstar, but of a tarnished jewel. The glory of the 1969 Super Bowl victory and his Broadway Joe image could still sell popcorn makers and aftershave lotion, but there was doubt that his near immobile legs-after five knee operations-could hold up for another year. Even his rifle arm seemed to be weakening: last season Namath fell to 26th place among N.F.L...
...Gilbane Company of Providence, R.I. is in charge of the construction. Jackson said the company's workers are using a special building technique, called "super fast-track construction," to complete the project as soon as possible...
...invoking the immortal words of Marshal Pétain before the 1916 Battle of Verdun. This time, however, the attacking army was not only German but also Swiss, Belgian, Italian, Spanish, British and mostly French-perhaps 30,000 demonstrators in all. They were protesting against "Super Phénix," France's giant Plutonium breeder reactor, under construction near Malville, 28 miles east of Lyon...
First the front page, of course. Then Sulzberger turns to the obituaries ("Super! I'm not here today, ha ha!") and on to the financial tables ("Super! Our stock's up!"). Now backward toward the front page again, ripping out headlines, paragraphs and whole stories that either please or peeve him, depositing the clippings on his night table for future action. Exhausted, Punch the Ripper flings the eviscerated carcass to the floor. And as the clock strikes 12, he sinks into the sweet sleep of a man who knows, as his paper's motto has it, all the news that...
...Times's feature-packed Sunday edition, which has gained 11,000 new readers in the past year. In May the Times sold more advertising than in any previous month in the paper's 126 years, a coup Sulzberger credits largely to his three new offspring. Says he: "They're super...