Word: tracks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kenneth Uston resigned as a $42,500-a-year senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange four years ago to become a professional blackjack player. He is good. Too good for the casinos to handle. Uston is known as a "counter," because he can keep track of the cards so well that he can determine if those remaining will tip the odds in his favor...
...emergency medical center in a battle zone, while volunteers with megaphones shouted instructions to the drivers. The casualties were a microcosm of the revolutionary movement itself: a fashionably dressed woman in her 20s with knee-high beige plastic boots; a seven-year-old boy dressed inexplicably in a blue track suit; a frail old man with a grizzled beard; countless young men and women in the cotton shirts and faded blue jeans that are the unisex uniform of the city streets...
...succeed such a pervasive figure presented a delicate problem for the eight-man council, many of whose members aspired to the post. In the end, the council settled on a compromise candidate: Colonel Benjedid Chadli, 49, a little-known officer who seems likely to keep Algeria on the track selected by the departed Boumedienne...
...major league debut ("Tomorrow's another day, kid, and you're going to be playing centerfield tomorrow"). Barrera said the decision not to let Cauthen ride Affirmed in the $200,000 Strub Stakes was "one of my hardest." But he earlier confessed, "You know what race-track people do fastest? Bury others." Still, it was Barrera who put Cauthen on Father Duffy, and gave The Kid the chance to break his losing streak...
...Crimson's tremendous output of energy at the GBCs last week took its toll Saturday when an exhausted and depleted Harvard track team fell to Army...