Word: depressible
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...Ravitch didn't put the owners' salary-cap proposal on the negotiating table until mid-June. This complex plan would limit total player salaries to 50% of overall major league revenues, although guaranteeing that overall salaries would not fall below their current level. This would depress free-agent spending by wealthy clubs and simultaneously force small-market teams to sign higher-priced talent. The payoff to owners was clear: player salaries currently equal 58% of revenues and are growing. Small wonder that the players' response, enunciated by union negotiator Don Fehr, was in effect "Death before dishonor -- a salary...
...employees were not free agents. Ever since players won the right to shop their services after six years in the majors to any team willing to bid for them, salaries have soared. But what would happen if the players were free starting from Day One? That, oddly enough, could depress salaries even more than the owners' much desired salary...
...motions are too exaggerated, he's too surprised. A real professional hitman would be able to cover it up. But Ben is supposed to be the part of the team who thinks. He doesn't feel lost like Gus, he doesn't allow the confines of the room to depress or upset him. Instead, he channels his emotion as anger about people he doesn't even know but only reads about...
...while those from ROTC rose from 5% to 41%. Under congressional orders, starting in 1997, academy graduates will have to compete against their ROTC and OCS colleagues for "regular" commissions, meaning academy graduates will initially hold "reserve" commissions, offering less protection against involuntary discharges. That's likely to depress interest in the academies even more. "Why should someone go through four years of hell," Korb asks, "when someone who doesn't go there can get a regular commission more quickly...
...Freshman Dining Hall is a dieter's paradise because the busy, unpleasant atmosphere the haphazard presentation; and the unappetizing selection and quality of food conspire to depress appetites and emotions. Better than Dexatrim (and cigarettes too,) the Freshman Union will keep you slim and fit. What first year's mouth waters when he or she hears: "Wanna go to the Union or something?" Freshman have stopped eating. How many upperclass students are pulled back to the Union by the inexorable forces of nostalgia? None...