Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pivotal issue in the settlement was the same one that has been troubling baseball for the past five years: Just what sort of compensation should an owner get when one of his players becomes a free agent and then signs with another team? Under the new agreement, the best free agents will be ranked in two groups, according to past performance. The top 20% will be designated as Type A players, the next 10% as Type B. If a club signs a Type A free agent, it must place all but 24 of its players in the compensation pool. When...
...owners on an important issue that arose out of the strike: whether the days lost would be considered time spent on the roster. According to the settlement, the down time will count toward the six seasons a player needs in the majors before he can qualify as a free agent. The issue is important to a player like Yankee Pitcher Ron Guidry, 30, who, at the start of the 1981 season, needed 168 days of service before he could offer his talents on the open market...
...appeals court judge, threw out the then 86-year-old reserve clause that bound a player to his club until he was either traded or retired from the game. In the most recent round of negotiations, the owners were determined to increase the compensation for lost free agents. Their former arrangement with the players simply called for the team that signed a free agent to give up one of its amateur draft choices to the player's old team. Unconcerned about losing amateurs-few of whom make it to the majors-the owners went on a free-agent binge...
...Wyler, 79, film director and three-time Oscar winner, for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) and Ben-Hur (1959); of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in French Alsace, Wyler immigrated to New York at age 19 and worked as a publicity agent and a script clerk before directing his first silent film in 1925. Though his work ranged from musicals (Funny Girl, 1968) to westerns (The Big Country, 1958), Wyler was best known for his film adaptations of such novels as Sinclair Lewis' Dodsworth (1936) and Emily Bronte's Wuthering...
Deep-cover Nazi agent kicks off his covers and must try to pull them up over him again-at least until the submarine picks him up, and he can get back to Germany with the Allied invasion plans. Donald Sutherland plays the spy, code-named Needle, and Kale Nelligan is a miserably married woman, living with her embittered husband on a remote island off the Scottish coast. Naturally the Needle washes up there. Naturally they fall in love. Naturally, in the end, she must choose between love and patriotic duty. As a bestseller, this was a good read...