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...phone company, meanwhile, clearly is in the computer market to stay. At a time when its traditional long-distance business is under attack from increasingly aggressive rivals like MCI Communications, A T & T is out to wove that it can play in the other guy's Ballpark...
First of all, it is about the aged. Until your spring training initiation is hard to imagine a ballpark full of old men and old women So while the stands are less animated than they are up north, where beer-crazed maniacs roam shouting obscenities, the crowd possesses a rare feeling for the game's subtlty...
...appreciation that comes only from 50 years of trips to the ballpark. Two octagenarians sitting in front of me compare Pete Rose, on the field running but not playing for the Expos, with George Sisler, who played for the St. Louis Browns in the '20 s. And I had always considered such '50 s luminaries as Stan Musial and Ted Williams the cream of the crop. I bowed to their 120 cumulative years of baseball knowledge...
...importance Harvard puts on market considerations and individual performance in setting the pay of key officials. And to the extent that Bok's salary is dwarfed by those of other university presidents, it largely reflects Harvard's unusual interest in keeping-even its highest-paid officials in the same ballpark as the rest of the administration...
...many observers are now doing, that OPEC's current plight will somehow become a permanent fixture of the world oil scene. Some of these observers are making serious errors of judgment and analysis. Others are seeking to validate their own research by generating results that fall within the ballpark of prevailing opinion. Still others are drawing long-term conclusions from short-term, cyclical market conditions. All are allowing the wish to father the thought...