Word: deale
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...Campanis has 40 years of experience in baseball. To sit down with him and talk about the inside functioning of a baseball organization and how to deal with owners and general managers has been enormously helpful. The problem is in baseball. The problem isn't Campanis. Al Campanis is merely an all-but- irrelevant symptom of the problem. To allow him to be turning out there in the wind makes him a scapegoat and ultimately impedes any progress in dealing with the issues in a constructive...
...This has got me into a great deal of conflict with the civil rights establishment, but I hold that affirmative action is not a universal panacea. It's a tool, and no area indicates that more than sports. The N.B.A., for example, is 75% black, and there was no affirmative action involved in it. But if you had an affirmative-action plan in the N.B.A. based on society at large, you'd have 10% black players and 90% white players. As a tool, affirmative action would be counterproductive. The front-office situation in baseball, in sports in general...
...Navajos to buy the 491,000-acre Big Boquillas ranch near Seligman, Ariz. The tribe paid $33.4 million for the place, which only two days earlier had been purchased by an oil company for $26.2 million. Real estate broker Byron ("Bud") Brown testified that when he was fixing the deal with MacDonald, the Navajo leader smiled and said, "I assume I'll be taken care of." Replied Brown: "Certainly...
Details of the deal were not disclosed, but it was probably a bargain by French standards: prime vineyards in Chile sell for $4,000 to $6,000 an acre, compared with as much as $400,000 in France's Bordeaux region. The country has a host of grape-hospitable regions whose weather remains remarkably stable from year to year. Chilean grapevines, of mostly transplanted French and some German stock, are unscathed by the Phylloxera that devastated Californian and European vines in the 19th century. With an annual output of some 70 million gal., Chile ranks 13th among the world...
While George Bush is off in Asia, Democratic lawmakers back home deal his fledgling Administration an embarrassing blow. Led by influential Chairman Sam Nunn, they turn thumbs down on Bush's Pentagon nominee amid concerns over drinking and potential conflicts of interest. But the President vows to back his old ally, even if it means a showdown in the Senate...