Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Each agent chooses the House seniors he wishes to solicit...
...executive director of the Players Association, and Ray Grebey, the owners' negotiator, shook hands on what Miller called a "miracle" agreement that averted a walkout by the players. Left unresolved was the pivotal question of how a club should be compensated when one of its players turns free agent and is hired away by another team. But it appeared that the owners left the bargaining table with a narrow victory on this point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative for the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We had to give up a great...
...current compensation procedure, under which a team losing a free agent is awarded an extra pick in the annual draft of amateur players, will remain in effect this year. The issue will be renegotiated next January, after a review by a committee of player and management representatives. If no agreement results, the owners can impose their own compensation formula. The players reserved the right to strike in response...
Under the owners' proposal, any club signing a "premier" free agent (basically, one drafted by eight or more teams) would have to compensate the player's old team with someone from its own 40-man roster (up to 18 players could be protected). But few clubs would risk signing any free agent but a superstar under that condition. The proposal is designed to damp the salary explosion that has occurred since the reserve clause, which bound players to their original teams, was overturned by an arbitrator in 1975. Today even middling players are being given $300,000 contracts...
...literary establishment, is compared by critics to E.M. Forster (a fellow homosexual who issued the closet cri de coeur: "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country"). Theo's career as Communist agent is unraveled after his death by bestselling Writer Anthony Stern, a straight second cousin who had been his social inferior and dearest friend...