Word: awards
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...star of the team, Garvey prepared Tampa well for its improbable position now as producer of both the most effective pitcher and the most efficient hitter in baseball: the Mets right-hander Gooden and the Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. One, the National League Cy Young Award winner by acclamation last year (24-4 record, 268 strikeouts, 1.53 earned-run average); the other, the American League batting champion by 33 points...
Including that first one, Gooden won 17 games and the Rookie of the Year award. He also lost Youmans again, shipped with a small gang of minor and major leaguers to Montreal, but at least he was compensated this time with the eminent backstop Gary Carter. "We're all just fortunate to be part of Dwight's world," Carter likes to say. Last year this pleasure included eight shutouts and strings of 14 victories, 31 scoreless innings and 49 innings without a run earned. Gooden and the St. Louis Cardinals' ace John Tudor stared each other into stupors, but even...
Accidents occur in the best of regulated families and notably also in rather evidently unregulated ones such as Harvard's. Thus the proposed award for distinguished public service to Mr. Edwin Meese III. But I do not write to join in the present storm of criticism, tempting as that may be. The problem now, in a popular Washington phrase of our day, is damage control. That cannot be achieved by escape, as was so brilliantly accomplished in the matter of a degree for President Ronald Reagan. Mitigation is now the best hope. To this end I suggest that the wording...
...course, that was not immediately apparent. The initial confusion is understandable: originally, we were led to believe that the award recognized distinguished public service. The fact that the medal is called "The Kennedy School 50th Anniversary Honorary Medal For Distinguished Public Service"--combined with the fact that it bears the words "distinguished public service"--probably contributed to that mistaken impression...
...token quality of the award doesn't exclude the element of distinction, Chase later said. "People have different ideas about what distinction means...