Word: despoil
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...creating three divisions in each league to replace the current two. The winners of each division, plus a wild-card team picked on the basis of its record, would stage a two-round play-off for the pennant, instead of the present one-round showdown. The change would further despoil the classic simplicity and suspense of the pennant race, but harvest millions more in TV loot. The owners are expected to vote on the plan next year...
...seaweed, which are harvested to make Pharmaceuticals and fertilizer, were destroyed. Thousands of oil-tarred birds lay dead or dying. The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey were threatened, as were the sands around the spectacular monastery at Mont-St.-Michel. Driven by gale winds, the oil may despoil more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) of France's ruggedly beautiful Brittany coast, and imperil the Normandy beaches farther to the east as well. By any measure, the spill was the biggest of all time and perhaps the most devastating. At week's end it appeared that most...
...sawmill operator, and a hard-driving executive who looks older than his years, Andrus served in the Idaho state senate before running unsuccessfully for Governor in 1966. The next time around, he ignored the minuscule local Democratic machine and concentrated on opposing mining interests who wanted to despoil the White Cloud Peaks−a federal recreation area−n search of molybdenum. After his election, he continued to pound at his preservation theme, winning a long and bitter fight to protect a 2,000-sq.-mi. "primitive area" from lumbering interests. Going against the wishes of local power companies...
Ghosts. Ibsen, about a woman haunted by ghosts from the past who invade and despoil her present and future. Due for a production at the Loeb this spring. At the Lyric Stage, 565 Boylston St., through February 8. Performances Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m., Sunday matinees...
...while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World War I that Britain and Russia had ganged up on Germany in a new Holy Alliance to despoil the Old World. "I pray," he wrote, "for the Salvation of Germany night and day-and God Save Ireland now is another form of God Save Germany...