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...leagues because of my arm, not because I could pitch," he recalls in a languorous Texas drawl. "My idea of pitching was to throw as hard as you could." That he did, walking batters by the dozen. His difficulties were not eased by chronic blisters on his pitching fingers or long stints in the bullpen...
...only difference between the young and the old. A significant number of today's elderly are, according to University of Chicago Professor Bernice Neugarten, "disproportionately disadvantaged." Many are foreign born, uneducated and unskilled. Far from all the aged are infirm, but 38% do suffer from some kind of chronic condition that limits their activities. Of these, fully half have serious problems and 5%, or one out of every 20, are homebound. About a third of all aged Americans are also plagued by poverty. Despite pensions, savings and Social Security, which will disburse $72 billion to 33.5 million recipients this...
There is a distinct possibility that under the present unsettled conditions, the Angolan government may be unable to exercise control over multinational operations as they attempt to extract the oil, bauxite and iron ore. That is a worry common to many African governments because of their chronic instability, limited authority, and minimal revenues...
...move to establish a state bank reflects a growing enmity between New York State's giant financial institutions and its political leaders. Their differences reached a boiling point in February when the private banks, apparently fed up with the chronic budgetary ills of Albany and New York City, refused to bid on bonds issued by the state's Urban Development Corporation. The UDC, created by the legislature mainly to finance low-cost ghetto housing, could not pay off $104.5 million in one-year notes. The state was forced to undertake an exceedingly costly rescue operation to save...
Voronel was forced to resign from his position at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and was further harrassed by a draft call for active duty despite his age (41 years) and a previous exemption due to a chronic back problem. The upper age limit for military service...