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Such figures suggest how removed baseball people -- owners and players -- have become from most ordinary Americans who follow the sport and, in one form or another, pay the freight. The business of baseball has never been better, and the sport is awash in cash. While an entry-level salary of $90,000 may not seem terribly shabby, it is peanuts in today's major leagues, where the average annual wage exceeds $500,000. Simple, slavering self-interest should have dictated that both sides do everything possible to keep the dollars rolling in. A new television contract with CBS will bring...
Detroit's automakers, awash in profits for the past four years, are in a severe drought. When the Big Three last week announced their profits for the fourth quarter, the cost of their incentive programs was all too clear. While car sales dropped 20%, profits plunged much more. Ford's declined 73%, to $314 million, while General Motors' fell 50%, to $700 million. Chrysler lost $664 million, its first deficit since...
Donald the dealmaker and Ivana, his glittering Czechmate, are awash in power and glitz. The collapse of their marriage has to be like everything else in their lives: flashy and very public. As friends, lawyers and publicists choose sides, the tabloids and TV go into a frenzy, while rumors fly about infidelities (his) and demands (hers) for a fair share of the $1.7 billion fortune...
...measure of last resort" and declare a state of emergency. Early Saturday morning, Soviet troops stormed the center of Baku in tanks and armored cars, smashing through makeshift barricades of buses and trucks. The troops exchanged fire with extremists, armed with submachine guns and sniper rifles. Eyewitnesses described streets awash with "pools of blood" and corpses strewn on the road to the highway; there were even unconfirmed reports that Soviet tanks had opened fire on the demonstrators...
Still, say the Wellington Convention's opponents, some countries might be tempted anyway. Contends Barnes of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition: "Some nations are awash in cash and technology and have no domestic oil supply. I think Japan would be down there as soon as the continent was opened up." Opponents of drilling point out that the Antarctic Treaty has not always been scrupulously adhered to, especially when it comes to fishing limits and environmental protection. They argue that the Wellington Convention could also be skirted...