Word: showdowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newspapers and their unruly production workers. Unauthorized work stoppages and slowdowns have cost the papers 12 million copies and $5.6 million so far this year. Infuriated, the Toronto-based Thomson Organization Ltd., which has owned the Sunday Times since 1959 and the Times since 1967, has forced a showdown. Thomson executives announced last April that they would give the unions until Nov. 30 to agree to sweeping reforms in work procedures, or else the papers would close down until they relented. All of Fleet Street is watching the confrontation with keen interest: a Times victory could embolden other publishers...
From such unfamiliar heights, Coach Paterno and his Nittany Lions are now preparing for a Sugar Bowl showdown with the Southeastern Conference champion. Paterno juggled bowl bids for a week because he wanted to make sure that Penn State would face its highest-ranked opponent...
...greed. Brennen finally finds the girl (also mysteriously dead) and discovers that the family business is being run by a homosexual Chinatown lawyer and his epicene "nephew." The nephew is quietly siphoning off cash to finance a cocaine-smuggling operation, and the tale moves to a bewildering but believable showdown. His publisher reports that Sausalito-based Zackel is working on a second novel, which on the evidence should be as welcome as San Francisco's cracked-crab season...
...troops patrol the streets, and tanks and armored cars make Tehran's notorious traffic jams worse than ever. Despite almost daily demonstrations by protesters, the generals-at least until the weekend Shootout at Tehran University -had obeyed the Shah's command to avoid the sort of bloody showdown that followed the imposition of martial law in twelve cities on Sept. 8. One inhibiting factor may be the top echelon's doubt that rank-and-file troops would support their commanders if ordered to attack protesters with bullets and bayonets. Moreover, "shooting Iran into political silence...
Both teams had their troubles over the course of the season, and their separate solutions to the problems of tenacious foes, injured heroes and warring locker-room egos outline equally separate paths to the World Series showdown. This year the one-big-happy-family of Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda was not quite so happy. Unlike last season, Los Angeles struggled through the early months, swapping the lead with the Cincinnati Reds, then falling behind the San Francisco Giants. It wasn't until the last week of August that the Dodgers entered first place to stay, and that after...