Word: balk
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...suspended Cincinnati Reds Manager Pete Rose for 30 days and fined him $10,000 after an umpire-shoving incident during a game at Riverfront Stadium on April 30. This harsh treatment of Charlie Hustle did not go down well with many purists. Neither did the proliferation of balk calls made by umpires this season, a phenomenon for which Giamatti alone is widely -- if incorrectly -- blamed. An old rule had been elaborated: with men on base, pitchers now had to "come to a single complete and discernible stop" in their windup before hurling the old apple homeward. Discernible? What kind...
...modest, cluttered office at the National League's Manhattan headquarters on Park Avenue. "I was gratified by the response. I think it's healthy." But there were other suit-wearing guests at the Seaver celebration who . . . "O.K.," Giamatti concedes, "I am seen as the prime mover of the balk." And he goes on, somewhat wearily, to explain again that he is only one member of the rules committee, which decided last winter to make pitchers toe the line. Then he changes the subject. "Remember what Seaver did at the end of the ceremony?" After a brief speech, the future Hall...
...problem creating "a crisis in law deaning," says Frederick Anderson, who recently resigned as dean of Washington's American University Law School after just three years. "There are too many constituencies," he complains. Students expect the dean to be a sounding board for their concerns. The university administration may balk at requests for funding. Meanwhile, the faculty tends to regard the dean as a peer rather than a supervisor, someone who implements policy but does not make...
...progress should not be allowed to mask the dangerous underlying problems that we have failed to address in recent years. In particular, there will be a continuing need for the U.S. to finance its unacceptably large trade deficit by borrowing money from investors in other countries. If those investors balk at any time, the result could be another sharp decline in the value of the dollar, accompanied by a steep rise in U.S. inflation and interest rates. That could lead to a worldwide recession and a renewal of the Third World debt crisis. Such economic turmoil would cause severe disruptions...
Henderson's infield single after a balk by Boyd (5-5) capped a four-run second inning...