Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Robinson was handed the worst team that came along, the Cleveland Indians, and made it respectable. But he was still considered a little volatile. While a player-manager, he socked a Toledo Mud Hens pitcher, who, upset at having been cut by Robinson, nearly beaned him in an exhibition game. Fired within three years, Robinson reappeared in San Francisco, where in 1982 he managed the languorous Giants into the last week of a pennant race. This time, snatching an occasional jersey in anger, he lasted only slightly longer. The word was that Robinson could not communicate with the modern ballplayers...
...push up her collar against % the wind. Dukakis, who forgot that he was wearing a microphone that allowed the press to hear his comments, whispered to her as he adjusted her coat, "Tonight if I'm asleep, wake me up. Don't let a moment go by." (Kitty cut in with a sharp, "Your microphone's on.") Sometimes, to counteract criticism that he lacks fire, Dukakis will tell audiences, "Kitty thinks I'm passionate...
College administrators are not entirely sure that all the courting and hustle are worth the considerable time and expense (Bowdoin's weekend wooing of 34 minority students cost $19,800). Still, none are willing to cut back unless their competitors do. And even when the sales pitch is persuasive, educators wonder if the customer has been well served. "I get concerned that all the marketing is taking the place of good counseling and exploiting people who haven't reached a real maturity level," says Frank Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors in Alexandria...
...CFM56 has no real rival, because Pratt & Whitney scuttled its plans to build a similar model. The engine builder, a division of Connecticut's United Technologies, cut development plans in the 1970s under the parent company's acquisitive chairman, Harry Gray. "Instead of building this engine, Gray * bought Otis Elevator. It was a monstrous mistake," says Wolfgang Demisch, who follows the industry for the Union Bank of Switzerland. The company later suffered "a market-share erosion as severe as any I can bring to mind," said Demisch...
...triangle of the Atlantic that includes the French-owned islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon off Canada's coast. France claims a 200-mile economic zone for the islands, while Ottawa recognizes only a twelve-mile limit. Last fall the Canadians cut off the islanders' limited fishing rights in the disputed zone after talks on the issue fell apart. Late last week the two sides met to discuss the appointment of a mediator...