Word: caps
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...owners began pleading that they could not afford the salary race. Forecasting losses of $90 million a year by 1988 and warning that major-league baseball was in jeopardy, they demanded that the players follow the example of the once fiscally battered National Basketball Association and establish a cap on salaries...
Only when the players walked out did both sides compromise. The players agreed to raise the eligibility requirement for arbitration for new players from two to three years. The owners, for their part, agreed to drop the salary-cap proposal. On the owners' contribution to the players' pension fund, the two sides compromised at an average of $32.6 million a year for the next five years. The early reading was that the players on balance had prevailed, though in fact they mostly held on to earlier gains...
...joked that the strike never would have happened if Kuhn had been alive. Like most past baseball commissioners, Kuhn was widely regarded as the owners' man, hired to do their bidding. Ueberroth struck a more independent stance, even siding with the players on the crucial issue of the salary cap. He argued that the free market should set players' salaries...
...then his daughter mentioned Keillor's show, and so did another musician. "I decided to tune in," he says. "That man's voice just mesmerizes people. I called my agent and told him to book me." Their first meeting was not electric. "He was backstage wearing a ball cap and casual clothes," Atkins goes on, "and I told him right off how much I enjoyed his show. He just looked at me and then walked away. You can't compliment him, as I learned. He's quiet, very introverted and shy. I am too. Maybe that's why we became...
...U.S.S.R. originally proposed the 6,000 cap but wants to include weapons in which the U.S. has an edge: gravity bombs and short-range attack missiles launched from planes. It wants to ban air-launched cruise missiles...