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...Mura, now out of the major leagues, led the 1982 Cardinals in victories, but manager Whitey Herzog chose not to pitch him in the playoffs or World Series, and left him unprotected in the free agent compensation pool that winter. Mura's departure was the first move in the breakup of that World Series champion. Two points each for naming the compensation the Cardinals received for trading away these key players from their World Series winner...
...BREAKUP of the Bell System intruded upon dinner a few weeks...
Conditions appeared to be ripe last week for the long-predicted breakup of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The pressure of OPEC's three-year struggle to prop up global oil prices seemed, at long last, to have fractured the group beyond repair. During the three-day emergency meeting in Geneva, OPEC's ministers let loose an unprecedented public display of insults, accusations and stubbornness. Yet once again the blowup failed to happen, and the group reached some broad agreements. Nonetheless, those accords showed convincingly that OPEC has lost its ability to dictate world oil prices...
...from a Northeastern private school--progresses through a series of scenes utilizing that of both body and machines, mainly cars. Morgan's first day at school is marred by the destruction of his bike under a roaring hot-rodder, and that was motivated in turn by his breakup, while on his fast-moving bike (of course), of a violent mugging the night before. Surprise, surprise Frankie's boyfriend Nick (Paul Mones) was the foiled mugger, and after recognizing Morgan at school as the law-abiding. Knight-in-Shining-Armor, he orders his remarkably violent gang to trash Morgan's bike...
...back on a growth path, Araskog has launched a major offensive in the U.S. telecommunications and office-equipment markets. The company has long been a major supplier of sophisticated telecommunications gear in Western Europe but was effectively shut out of the American market until last year's breakup of AT&T. Now ITT hopes to sell an advanced switchboard, known as System 12, to some of the new regional Bell companies. However, it faces formidable competition from several firms, including AT&T, GTE and Northern Telecom. In the office-equipment field, ITT has come out with a personal computer...