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...hike over two years that would take the average fireman's annual salary to €37,500. The FBU is asking for 40%, but hinted it would accept 16%. Determined to forestall a wider public services walkout, ministers warned that future FBU strikes might be outlawed. "We have bent over backward to be fair," Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott told the House of Commons. "We have been met with action that is wrong ... and puts lives at risk." But the very people whose lives were at risk seemed largely unperturbed. Although seven people were killed in fires - about average...
...some of the scenarios about consequences of the keg ban seem improbable. There is no reason to think that students faced with cans and hard liquor will favor the hard stuff while the same students faced with kegs and hard liquor would go for the beer. Of course, anyone bent on getting drunk, even if only to prove a point, will be able to do so whatever the regulations; but the point of drinking is not to get drunk. Nor do I think that the keg ban will force parties off campus where the drinking will only be less controlled...
Bonds has bent baseball with his skill and power. He so petrifies opponents that they have abandoned traditional strategies to try to defend against him. Pitchers gave Bonds an intentional walk 68 times this season rather than face him, breaking the record of 45 set in 1969 by another Giant, Willie McCovey. Opponents walk Bonds in situations where no other hitter would get a free pass. In the National League Championship Series, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa, one of baseball's acknowledged brains, nearly burned out his laptop trying to neutralize Bonds. In the eighth inning...
Senior captain Michael Cornish opened up the scoring in the 52nd minute when he bent a free kick around a six-man wall and into the corner of the Crusader goal...
Playing under the lights in front of close to 1,000 fans helped the Crimson finally break out of its trend of sluggish first halves. Harvard was able to move the ball around well but its momentum was abruptly halted when Sturm bent a beautiful 35-yard free kick into the upper right corner of the Crimson goal...