Word: tensely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ali does not need to fight Spinks for the money. He made nearly $60 million in purses?$3.5 million against Spinks, who got $320,000?and even Ali could not spend all that. Two divorces, bad investments, taxes, profligate generosity and a large, leeching entourage have made tens of millions...
Though electronic pilfering currently amounts to less than 1% of the $41 billion in annual business thefts by employees and company executives, it is far more serious than stealing from petty cash, and much harder to uncover. In 1973 officers of Eq uity Funding Corp. of America, a Los Angeles...
THE GOVERNMENT needs to take a renewed interest in preserving the small, family farmer, who is suffering not because of his inability to produce as efficiently as a farm of 8000 acres, but because of his inability to absorb the losses resulting from a poor harvest. An insurance company investing...
In Boston, hundreds of artists and performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the...
But the fans, the true students and lovers of the game, weren't fooled by this nonsense. Intuitively they understood that Fidrych was a ballplayer of the old stamp, the kind that played before the game took on the attributes of a big-money promotional sport. He wasn't another...