Word: basics
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...basic premises of James and his fellow sabermetricians (from the acronym for the Society for American Baseball Research) is that one-run strategies (including sacrifice bunts and stolen bases) are usually pointless. A corollary of this premise is that major league managers, with the exception of Earl Weaver and a few others, do not know what they are doing, a fact that makes anti-James feeling somewhat understandable. Baseball research is in its infancy, and much of it is slapdash. But the numbers suggest that the sabermetricians are on the right track and that baseball faces the galling prospect...
...problems demanding urgent solutions involve far more than redesigning the rocket joint that failed. NASA has identified about 50 potentially dangerous faults that will require remedies before a flight can be scheduled. They range from long-standing braking problems that have made many landings risky ventures to a basic question about the reliability of the orbiter's three main engines. Rogers Commission Member Eugene Covert, a professor of aeronautics at M.I.T., headed a joint government-industry team in the late 1970s that solved the problem of these engines' repeatedly blowing up in ground tests. But he still worries about...
Officials seemed to plan for virtually every contingency. But they forgot one basic rule of etiquette. They looked a gift horse in the mouth...
...Farrill, a fitness instructor at a California spa, especially likes men's weeks "because they don't bitch and moan the way women do. Couples' week is fun too," she adds, "because the couples are very playful, teasing and pinching each other's love handles." Though they share a basic philosophy, spas vary considerably in style. At the ultraluxe end of the scale are Maine Chance in Phoenix, the haven of Elizabeth Arden loyalists, and the Greenhouse in Arlington, Texas, where ladies dress for dinner and are whisked off to Neiman-Marcus for an afternoon's shopping. At the other...
...soon as the House of Representatives passed a sweeping trade bill by a vote of 295 to 115 last week, President Reagan all but promised to veto it. Said he: "This antitrade bill, this protectionist legislation, would have our nation violate the most basic tenets of free and fair international trade. Indeed, it would plunge the world into a trade war eroding our relations with our allies and free-world trading partners...