Word: batted
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...take should talks collapse. Other sections instruct diplomats that "being nice is no answer" and urge negotiators to "listen actively and acknowledge what is being said" and to "make the most of your assets." That's sort of like reminding a baseball batter to remember to bring his bat to the plate, and to keep his eye on the ball: You can't dispute the ideas, but they won't put a strike-out king on base...
Like two knights locked in endless com bat, Ronald Reagan and legal services lawyers are undying adversaries. During his eight years as Governor of California, Reagan constantly urged the Nixon Ad ministration to end all federal support for free legal services for the poor in civil cases. In 1970, the Governor vetoed a $1.8 million grant to California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) because a Reagan-requested inquiry had found 135 apparent incidents of misconduct by the group's lawyers. CRLA survived that threat when a three-judge commission declared the charges "unfounded and without merit...
...years of organized soccer competition, the athletes coming in have more talents than those they are replacing (Landry for example has recently tied Sue St. Louis' '81 goal-scoring record), and the time when players like Ferrante can pick up the sport when they are juniors in high school, bat the ball around with their brothers, and come to star in a varsity program on the collegiate level is long past...
...times, Coppinger has had to alleviate minor tension between the players and the coaching staff. "He's gone to bat a couple of times for players," defensive lineman Dave Sauve says. Azelby noted one of those occasions, recalling a time earlier this season when defensive co-ordinator George Clements got a little angry with some members of the team for leaving some defensive scouting reports--apparently unread--behind after a meeting...
...venture forth only rarely. They journeyed to the White House when Ragtime was screened for the President, and this week at the New York Press Club, Cagney will memorialize his old friend Robert Montgomery, who died in September. He is also considering another movie role, as an aging Bat Masterson...