Word: bill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...promotional ploys help make up for the earnest but second-rate play on the diamond. Fans know that any player who becomes a star will soon be promoted to a higher league. "We can't really highlight a player," says Bill Terlecky, general manager of the Maine Phillies, "because we might lose him." One consolation: many minor-league buffs can boast of having seen Dwight Gooden and other superstars play when they were fresh out of high school...
Within hours, the Senate approved 94-0 a similar bill, but only after peppering it with scores of complex changes that may not be untangled before a House-Senate conference committee next week, at which lawmakers plan to fashion the final version...
...Hold on--help is coming in a sensible, rational compassionate way," Agriculture Committee Chairman E. "Kika" de la Garza (D-Tex.) said as the House gave 368-29 approval to its version of the bill...
Basic provisions of the bill would provide payments to drought-stricken farmers equal to 65 percent of their lost earnings above 35 percent of anticipated harvest. They also would expand and streamline government feed programs for dairy and livestock producers...
...union's chief argument is with the contractors and not the University, said Bill Murphy, agent for the Painters District Council 35. He said the contractors are paying wages so far below the union rate that it is impossible to compete...