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Baseball owners have argued that without some form of revenue sharing, certain financially unstable franchises will be forced to abandon their fans and move elsewhere...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: The Joys of Sports | 9/23/1994 | See Source »

...course, there was another potential source of inspiration a bit closer at hand--the stuffed sun-bleached bunny which sits on Knowles' office window ledge, unlike most Harvard students, didn't abandon him for an internship after May finals...

Author: By Tara H. Arden-smith, | Title: Harvard Administrators Find Cures for the Summertime Blues | 9/14/1994 | See Source »

...Clinton administration's point person on welfare reform, Ellwood is actually making his theories into national policy. Does he really want to abandon the job to deal with irate faculty and well-heeled alumni...

Author: By Anna D. Wilde, | Title: Again, Searching for a Dean | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

...chance left, a Russian cosmonaut successfully docked a food-laden Progress M-24 rocket with the orbital space station Mir. The risky move may have saved Russia's manned space program from extinction. If the manual attempt had failed, the three cosmonauts on board Mir would have had to abandon the craft and board an emergency re-entry vehicle. High jinks on the ground made their predicament far worse: underpaid ground-support technicians stole many of their edibles before takeoff, and the cosmonauts were subsisting on recycled wastewater and food two years past its expiration date. There were international cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROOKIE SAVES HUNGRY SPACEMEN | 9/2/1994 | See Source »

Russia became the latest negotiator to abandon the Bosnian Serbs. Andrei Kozyrev, the Russian foreign minister, announced that his country would refuse to come to the aid of Bosnian Serbs if an all-out war broke out in the former Yugoslavia. Even the Serb President, Slobodan Milosevic, has warned the recalcitrant Bosnian Serbs by threatening to cut off their supplies and funding. Are the Serbs getting the point? Apparently not. They're continuing their siege of Sarajevo and their effort to drive Muslims from northeast Bosnia. "The Bosnian Serbs think they will somehow wiggle out of this just like they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOSNIAN SERBS LOSING FRIENDS | 8/1/1994 | See Source »

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