Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week in Fort Worth, a jury heard evidence in what prosecutors describe as the epidemic's first criminal trial. A 40-year-old programmer named Donald Gene Burleson is accused of infecting a former employer's computer with a virus-like program that deleted more than 168,000 records of sales commissions. Burleson says he is innocent, but he was ordered to pay his former employer $12,000 in a civil case based on similar charges. If convicted, he could face ten years in prison...
...player will always share a unique bond, whether or not the player chooses to acknowledge his audience. Rick Burleson is still my all-time hero, even though the one time I shouted encouragement from the stands he scowled and looked down at the infield grass. I never knew why, but I'd like to think he appreciated the recognition...
...league baseball through the prism of the team he covers, the Red Sox. His first two chapters contrast the 1975 team, a group that seemed on the verge of establishing a New England dynasty, and the mediocre 1983 team--long since stripped of stars like Fred Lynn, Fisk, Rick Burleson and Cecil Cooper--which struggled to avoid last place. Gammons then traces the years between these two poles discussing in minute detail the course of each season, from both an athletic and business perspective. The argument is an important one; the free agent system has changed the sport from...
...could be Rick Burleson at short, the red, navy and white uniform lithe on his body and distinct against the warm brown of the basepath...
...runs have meant to the Red Sox this year, the team's change of mood over the past two seasons must be attributed in the largest part to the Major, the tough tobacco-y Manager Ralph Houk. About the time that Mercenaries Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk and Rick Burleson shipped out, Houk shipped on. "When everyone was saying we'd finish last a year ago," says Yaz, "Houk was saying, 'Let's show them.' " Boston lost the second half of the strike-torn season by l l/2 games. "In Yaz," says Houk, sitting cross-legged...