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...issue is not whether Screw is exploitative or offensive. It is both and we abhor it. The point is that The Crimson's editors should not intervene between advertiser and subscriber but should let readers form their own conclusions...
...ruling gave them the right to leave their teams after six years of major league service and sign with the highest bidder. Since then, 248 players have taken that option, and the average major league salary has more than tripled, to almost $180,000 a year. The owners abhor free agency more than rain and have been trying to force modifications of the system. A strike over the issue was narrowly avoided last year when the owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association agreed to further negotiations. The two sides failed to come up with a settlement during...
...player's former club with a man of its own. (Ranking players are defined as those in the top half of the league in number of batting or pitching appearances.) Each club could, however, protect a number of its stars from being grabbed as compensation. The players abhor that plan more than night games in April because it presumably would make owners less eager to sign free agents, thus driving down their market price. Complains Marvin Miller, the players' union chief: "Let's say the free agent is an outstanding player but is 38 years...
...Haig's eyes, U.S. policy since Viet Nam has often seemed-and been -"confused with respect to the priorities we should establish" and disposed "to abhor anything military." Power in the world, to some extent, "has become diffused over 150 nations," creating a climate of severe instability...
...John Paul II told 15,000 Japanese, "nuclear stockpiles have grown . . . Even if a mere fraction of the available weapons were to be used, one has to ask whether . . . the very destruction of humanity is not a real possibility." He added: "To remember Hiroshima is to abhor nuclear war. To remember Hiroshima is to commit oneself to peace...