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Most Americans would probably be surprised to learn that children from the U.S. are being placed in foreign homes. According to the National Council for Adoption, between 1 million and 2 million U.S. families would like to adopt. That demand greatly outstrips the approximately 100,000 American infants and children who are available each year for public and private adoption. As a result, prospective parents must either wait on average 2 1/2 years or look abroad, where Americans adopt upwards of 7,000 children a year...
...three to six years of major league service. (Veterans can negotiate their own contracts as free agents, while young players must accept what their team pays them as long as it meets the minimum salary.) A baseball arbitrator must choose between the team's offer and the player's demand; he is not allowed to split the difference. What this has meant in practice over the years is that each time a spendthrift owner like George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees pays a no- hit, no-field free-agent shortstop $2.5 million, every journeyman infielder can successfully argue...
Last Wednesday, Houck ruled again, this time in favor of the haircut. Previously, he had accepted the Citadel's demand that Faulkner be housed by herself in a renovated area of the school's infirmary. Faulkner's enrollment, however, seemed inevitable, and as she prepared gamely for her desired ordeal, Citadel graduates like Buck Limehouse (class of '60), now chairman of the South Carolina department of transportation commission, tried to put their disappointment in a historical context: "It's sort of like the Southern cause," he said. "Even if you know you're going to lose...
...return to 1975, when an arbitrator (supported by later court rulings) struck down baseball's reserve clause, which tied players to one team for as long as the club wished. Despite the apparent victory, players' union chief Marvin Miller knew well the laws of supply and demand. If all players are on the market, he reasoned, most will be relatively cheap. If 20 left-handed hitting outfielders are available, teams that need one won't have to pay much. If only two are up for auction, the bidding will be fierce...
House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich is expected to demand tomorrow that Democrats strip between $2 billion and $4 billion from the proposed $33 billion crime bill, sources tell TIME Washington Correspondent Julie Johnson. But negotiators from the Democratic side hope to get enough votes simply by shifting $315 million currently slated for prevention programs into law enforcement, Johnson says. Meanwhile, President Clinton scored a few points today by convincing three members of the congressional black caucus to allow a full chamber vote on the crime bill. A vote should go down by the end of the week...