Word: beg
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...pays Spelling-Goldberg Productions only $583,000, leaving a deficit of between $800,000 and $900,000 a season. It is generally not until a series is sold for syndication that the deficit is erased and the big profits begin. Until then, producers borrow, worry about cost overruns and beg the networks for more money...
...Leverett House junior hopes to improve what he terms "the second-rate treatment" the soccer team receives. "We have to almost beg them to cut the grass on the day of a game...Yet they're out there with blow dryers on the football field," Duggan added...
...calculate the political costs involved, and run, not walk, the other way. But should the impossible happen, should they decide to save the cities and towns, the result would be just as disastrous. With no control over large chunks of their revenue, the cities and towns would have to beg individually from the state legislature for outlays, removing all local control and autonomy. Those who have compared state and local government know which is more efficient. Those who haven't need only contrast Gov. Edward J. King with, say, Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 and decide which is more...
...personal favorites. These essays not only compose an impressive body of knowledge and rhetoric, but also evoke a classical dilemma--the role of the intellectual. While Bell fights, and wins, war in the abstract, his victories seem pyrrhic. By the end of his 17 essays, any reader will beg for a solution to the problems he has raised. Although each essay contains a trace of hope, Bell always falls short of an answer, or even advice, leaving the reader in despair...
...with the elder Kennedy, a business partner in many of her films. The affair destroyed her marriage to the Marquis de la Falaise, she reports, and nearly ended Kennedy's to Rose. The impending scandal, writes Swanson, led Boston's late William Cardinal O'Connell to beg her to end the affair. "Each time you see him becomes an occasion of sin for him," the Cardinal warned. That did not especially impress either of them. When the two finally fell out, it was over a less spiritual matter-money...