Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cuts a giant figure, although he is not even close to being the most humongous man on the team. Several of the Nebraska linemen resemble telephone booths with 19-in. TV sets on top. At 6 ft. 3 in., 270 Ibs., straw-haired and bottle-jawed, Steinkuhler is the tobacco-spitting image of "Herby Husker," Nebraska's mascot in bib overalls. Pro-football scouts are afraid to say how good he is, because he may be the best offensive lineman they have ever seen. "In Steinkuhler, Fryar and Rozier," says Dallas Cowboy personnel man Gil Brandt, "Nebraska might have...
...meager one-hour-a-week TV watcher, Fowler, 42, came by his libertarian philosophy gradually. The son of a Toronto tobacco wholesaler, he moved to the U.S. at ten and later went to college and law school at the University of Florida. During those years, he supported himself as a disc jockey and program director for small-market radio stations. In 1968 he traveled to Indiana to work on Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign. Later, moving to Washington to join the city's busy network of communications lawyers, he came to the conclusion that the complex FCC rules...
...most and were something less than exclusive. Montreal associated itself with 168 official products; Moscow signed up 200. Ignoring everything Baron de Coubertin had said about dignity, the 1980 Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., found 381 buyers for the Olympic label, including an official chewing tobacco. By contrast, the L.A.O.O.C. has held down the number of sponsors to 30, but the charge is a minimum $4 million for each (Lake Placid collected $9 million total), and in most cases that represents just a down payment...
...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
...Salvador. While both sides went through the motions of peacemaking in Bogotá, they still hoped to gain a decisive edge on the battlefield. Crawling through cornfields, tobacco patches and shoulder-high brush, squads of guerrillas staged a surprise early-morning raid against several army outposts near the hilltop town of Tenancingo, 17 miles northeast of San Salvador. After two hours of fighting, frightened townspeople, many of whom were hiding under their beds, heard approaching army helicopters. They were soon followed by spotter planes and three U.S.-supplied A-37B Dragonfly jets...