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...that can be made to keep industry in America means someone overseas will go without. Like many embraces more ardent than wise, this passion for industry will likely end up with someone getting screwed; if concessions must be made, they should be made cynically. It's all right to bat one's eyelashes at that rich computer company, but a roll in the hay is no trivial decision...
...risk. Says Lieut. Robert Long of the Massachusetts state police narcotics unit: "A dealer can buy about 1,000 look-alike pills for $45 per jar, or approximately 4? each. Then he goes out to some eighth-grader and sells those same pills for $2 apiece. Right off the bat he's making a profit of more than...
Luckily, this one panned out. True, Ainge's bat has been unproductive and he is not yet an accomplished fielder, but many infielders (see Rick Burleson, Craig Nettles, Larry Bowa) take some time in the bigs to develop. His decision to abandon baseball for basketball costs the Jays not just the amateur draft selection they used to sign him, not just the time and money they have invested in him in salary, in coaching, in travel and in meals, but also the future services he would perform for them on the major league level. Ainge is not a prospect...
...reach, in the past, has been 70 inches, even. Today it is 70 inches. That puts Leonard at an eight-inch reach disadvantage. To the uninitiated, fighting with an eight-inch disadvantage is like trying to hit a home run in the major leagues with a whiffle-ball bat...
...severe stammer makes teaching more frustrating for Kelleher than for most. "I just keep going...but stammering is a terrible exhausting, business. After teaching a class where I've been caught in a bout of stammering, I come out feeling like I've been beaten with a baseball bat...Sometimes I only get to about half of what I want...