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...Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances up," Mattingly says. "It's depressing." However, many of the modern stars -- Jose Canseco ($15), Roger Clemens ($9) and Will Clark ($8) among them -- seem to see the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Assembly Line of Dreams | 5/15/1989 | See Source »

...last year, many were appalled when some Christians attempted to put a boycott on The Last Temptation of Christ because it offended some fundamentalists for its depiction of Jesus...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Raging Against Censorship | 5/12/1989 | See Source »

...silly decision is but the latest in a series of apartheid measures that have led blacks to boycott the town's business district. As a result, commercial sales are down 40% to 70%, but the council has refused to budge, ! despite pleas by the Boksburg Chamber of Commerce to reconsider. The Conservatives did make one small concession to common sense: they will allow Yip's children to eat at the Golden Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: Food for Thought | 5/8/1989 | See Source »

Twenty state legislators from Oregon and 16 from California backed the boycott. Consumer groups in Alaska and New York state also asked consumers to join...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationwide Boycott Day Targets Exxon | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

Exxon issued a statement calling the boycott unjust, and added: "Exxon believes in the basic fairness of the American people and is confident that they will see Exxon's employees, dealers and owners as victims of human error, not as an institution that should be discriminated against for an accident that occurred while we were doing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nationwide Boycott Day Targets Exxon | 5/3/1989 | See Source »

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