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...Ravitch didn't put the owners' salary-cap proposal on the negotiating table until mid-June. This complex plan would limit total player salaries to 50% of overall major league revenues, although guaranteeing that overall salaries would not fall below their current level. This would depress free-agent spending by wealthy clubs and simultaneously force small-market teams to sign higher-priced talent. The payoff to owners was clear: player salaries currently equal 58% of revenues and are growing. Small wonder that the players' response, enunciated by union negotiator Don Fehr, was in effect "Death before dishonor -- a salary...
...with justice, that owners have trouble predicting their player costs from year to year. The prime culprit here is baseball's bizarre system of salary arbitration, which is designed to protect players with three to six years of major league service. (Veterans can negotiate their own contracts as free agents, while young players must accept what their team pays them as long as it meets the minimum salary.) A baseball arbitrator must choose between the team's offer and the player's demand; he is not allowed to split the difference. What this has meant in practice over the years...
Michael Stone, as her jealous younger lover Garry, is a stand-out in a solid cast. Born a century too late for the stellar vaudeville career he deserves, Stone employs his expressive face and spectacular physical comedy skills as the libidinous real estate agent of "Nothing On." He makes two fantastic falls down staircases that would have taken Chevy Chase a wagonload of painkillers to endure...
...larger groups represented at the meeting -- notably Operation Rescue and its more sizable spin-offs -- seemed at least superficially resistant to that transition; they require that members sign a pledge of nonviolence. Yet Fred Hobbs, a special agent with the Florida department of law enforcement who has been investigating antiabortion violence for over a year, notes, "We feel that sometimes these pledges are ((merely)) a means to avoid prosecution under criminal and civil RICO ((federal racketeering)) statutes." In addition, during the meeting more militant pro-lifers founded a new group, the American Coalition of Life Activists, at least partly...
...Double Agent 73" Saturday August 13, Doris Wishman in person at 7:30 p.m. and Wednesday August...