Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country's 200,000 whites. Tens of thousands of settlers, fearful that their presence will be tolerated only until Mugabe consolidates his power, are preparing for eventual departures. White policemen are resigning in large numbers and scores of military officers are expected to leave when their one-year bonus contracts expire next month. Others, like Lieut. General Peter Walls, the country's top military commander, have been encouraged by the first steps toward integrating the guerrillas into the new national army and are prepared to stay on for the time being (see box). Mugabe's victory...
Curry hit the first half of a one-and-one bonus before UConn's Cathy Bochain, who netted a cool 19 points on the evening, raced to the basket for two. Harvard quickly turned the ball over, and with 12 seconds on the clock, the Huskies had a chance to knot the score...
...Tenn. Skeptics argue that Super Phenix, which will cost $1.5 billion-a conventional reactor costs $1 billion-is too expensive. But the plant's builders, a French-Italian-West German consortium, counter that the fast-breeder's electricity will be competitive with oil-generated power. The bonus, says Giscard, is that "if uranium from French soil is used in fast-breeder reactors, we in France will have potential energy reserves comparable to those of Saudi Arabia...
Taylor hit jumpers with only seconds remaining in regulation time and repeated the effort in each of the two bonus periods. With 11 seconds on the clock in the third overtime, he drove through the left side of the Big Green defense and hit the winning basket...
Displaying a coolness they have lacked for weeks, the Crimson cagers guardedly pursued the patient Greenmen until the game's final two seconds, when Taylor tied the score at 6.3 and sent the contest into its first bonus frame...