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...leading them to hate the system--both the crooks and the courts--that makes their world the way it is. So the cops live outside the system: sometimes they steal because they are greedy, sometimes because they figure they deserve the money more than some pusher. Sometimes they actively bust heads because they think it works as a deterrent, and sometimes they just ignore everything they see, waiting for the pension 20 years will bring them. Often the job, with its endless contradictions, proves too much. As Ciello points out, Mafiosi never commit suicide, while cops kill themselves in droves...
...management provoked the baseball strike, a clear (though ineffective) attempt to bust the players union. "Who believes in unions?" Atlanta Braves owner Ted Turner reportedly asked at one management meeting. When no-one raised a hand, Turner allegedly bellowed. "Then let's bust this...
...owners lost--they failed to bust the union. "I'm just glad to be playing baseball again," Blue Jay catcher and assistant player rep Ernie Witt said, "but I'm not happy with the settlement." Why, Ernie? "The whole thing could have been avoided. I just don't like...
...paychecks for the first time. Population experts refer to this as "the pig in a python" phenomenon because demographic charts today resemble a snake that has just swallowed something huge. The people born during the baby boom form a large group that comes between two periods of baby bust: the Depression and the 1970s. The boom is slowly working its way through society, and is now reaching the center point. Says Consumer Researcher Fabian Linden: "The baby-boom generation is not some esoteric Indian tribe but is now the hard core, the mainstream, of the population...
...pump in up to $30 million over the next four years. Meanwhile, Philadelphia Phillies Batting Star Pete Rose is doing some pitching for the Bulletin in radio spots. "I don't care whether you are a newspaper or a ballplayer," says Rose, "if you give 100%, if you bust your gut every day, you're gonna come out ahead." For the Bulletin, though, it is going to be one tough game...