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...voting by mail on whether or not to accept a 9% pay offer already approved by their union bosses; a rejection could mean an early showdown with the government. Despite Thatcher's tough stand on the abuses of union power, her moderate Employment Secretary, James Prior, quickly convened back-to-back meetings with leaders of both labor and industry. In both cases, he stressed his own "softly, softly" approach. But in both cases, he was also warned that the next few months will be "hard going" on the labor front...
...What is the only team to have back-to-back winners of the Rookie of the Year Award who played the same position...
...been the first time the last two years I've been flat," he continued. "I was overdue. Regardless of the sport or how you're pitching, you have to get a little stale period. But it's out of my system. I don't think I'll ever pitch back-to-back games like that again in my life...
After suffering another bogey on the second hole. Alexander cruised at two-over until back-to-back birdies at nine and ten sent him back to even par. It was on the home stretch, however, that the wheels came off in the form of back-to-back double bogeys...
...Penn's Panser Division. Dennis Karbach and Tom Olszak, touched Brown for back-to-back homers and re-knotted the score at nine. Two batters later Mike Derle ripped a single off Brown, the 15th hit that the senior captain had yielded in the contest, and forced Ron Stewart in from the bullpen. Stewart got the final out of the ninth and, consequently, the win to even his record...