Word: buds
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...sidewalk and personally greeted fans at Fenway Park, while San Diego Padres players handed out free caps before the game. Despite those efforts-and incentives like cut-rate seats on opening day-major league players returned to work to find tough (and often sparse) crowds waiting. Said Brewers owner Bud Selig, baseball's acting commissioner who canceled last year's World Series: "We got a lot of work ahead of us." --By Kathleen Adams, Lina Lofaro, Belinda Luscombe, Alice Park, Michael Quinn, Jeffery C. Rubin and Sidney Urquhart
...such measures are mostly conservative grandstanding, as some say, and if sponsor Bud Shuster, a Pennsylvania Republican, counts on the Senate to moderate his don't-drink-the-water bill, there's an interesting question: Grandstanding for whom? A TIME/CNN poll in January reported that 55% of those asked would increase government spending on the environment, 16% would decrease it and 27% would keep spending the same. Other polls show strong environmental support among suburban Republicans and blue-collar white males, who are furious that business is pushing environmental cuts...
Soon thereafter someone who was also studyingGrof's work introduced Mack to Bud Hopkins, a NewYork artist who had been studying the abductionphenomenon for decades...
...forcing the owners to return to the work rules of the expired collective-bargaining agreement. So baseball was right back where it started last August, with the same old system in place and no sign of a new agreement. The distrust between union head Don Fehr and acting commissioner Bud Selig is still so vehement that they can't even agree on a mutual no-strike, no-lockout pledge for this season...
DIED. JAMES L. "BUD" WALTON, 73, billionaire who with his older brother Sam opened the single store in 1962 that eventually grew into the Wal-Mart discount chain, the largest retailer in the country; following surgery for a stomach aneurysm; in Little Rock, Arkansas...