Word: bret
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...protecting some labor agreements and its pension system. Another Cheney meeting is scheduled for next week. The coddling happens in small ways too: Hoffa is likely to start getting invitations to White House social events. "This White House pays more attention than the last one did," says Teamsters spokesman Bret Caldwell...
...Seattle Mariners, far-and-away owners of baseball's best record at 63-24, are sending eight players, a full quarter of the squad and the most since the 1960 Pirates. Seattle fans, voting early and often, elected four of them - first baseman John Olerud, second baseman Bret Boone, designated hitter Edgar Martinez and straight-from-Japan outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who received the most votes of any player - to start...
...Mariners are now made of players like Edgar Martinez, a quietly stellar hitter who will be batting .300 with 125 RBIs well into his 50s. Bret Boone and John Olerud are fine players and deserving, but superstars? More like hometown voting passion. Likewise Cameron, Garcia, Sasaki and Nelson - none of these guys are going to make Rodriguez-type money or do Griffey-type commercial endorsements...
...when he was charged with child abuse, and last year his temper flared up again during an interleague game against the Mets, when he earned a 10-game suspension for head-butting an umpire. Almost makes you nostalgic for the glory days of Mets-turned-Red Sox pitchers Bret Saberhagen (who sprayed bleach at reporters back in 1993) and David Cone (who allegedly exposed himself to three women while hanging out in the Mets bullpen during a 1989 game...
...program, I can say marijuana is not the innocuous drug Ehrenreich considers it to be. Marijuana is a significant problem for employers, individuals and society as a whole. Impaired motor skills and judgment, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, antisocial behavior and psychological addiction may all be related to marijuana use. BRET J. HERROD Highlands Ranch, Colo...