Word: units
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the Celtics first came out, at $18.50 a "unit" (another name for a share), the Boston papers scoffed and said it was a sucker play because the team was worth maybe $5 a unit at the time. But the fans are having the last scoff because all along they've got a 7% to 13% annual tax-sheltered distribution, and even without Larry Bird the value of the team is catching up to the original price...
...share of the Celtics has been better than money in the bank, and 90,000 unit holders can say the team belongs to them. Team officials once received a copy of a newspaper story about a Bostonian who got married in Ireland. The headline said: CELTICS OWNER WED AT BLARNEY STONE. They looked the guy up. He owned two units...
Approximately 12 state, Cambridge and Harvard police cars swarmed onto the scene at around 9 p.m. The Cambridge police even brought in its K-9 unit...
Social Studies 10, the foundation course of the interdisciplinary concentration, will include a new three-week unit if the recommendations of a curriculum sub-committee are approved by the rest of the social studies faculty next week...
...unit, titled "The Formation of Civil Society," would focus largely on how gender affects the organization of society and government...