Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Coming to the U.S. is a dream that sometimes starts as a nightmare. Carty, the 1970 National League batting champion who played nine years for the Braves, remembers he ate chicken for three months because he did not know enough English to ask for anything else. And he never did adjust to cold weather in the early weeks of the season. A few teams now have programs, including English lessons, to bridge the culture gap, and some players take to the U.S. well enough to stay...
...debt, Oakland's Griffin supplies uniforms, bats and balls to a San Pedro sugar-mill team called, appropriately enough, Estrellas de Griffin. Andujar spends much of the off-season coaching teenage players there. Says he: "I could go to the beach and have a good time, but they dream of coming to the United States to play professional baseball. That's why I try to help them." That, too, explains why San Pedro produces so many fine players...
...state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream to get rich quickly, but the lottery holds up false hope for people. Nobody who has any real understanding of the number 6 million would participate in the game." Arnie Wexler, a recovering compulsive...
...Dream of the Blue Turtles is either the break, or simply a break from The Police. Either way, Sting will continue to surround himself with the finest musicians around and to put on a riveting live show. But he better brush up on generating excitement on vinyl while censoring--or at least tempering--his preachy tendencies. As it stands, Sting's new LP does not live up to the promise of his moniker or his hype...
Last Friday, Bush came face-to-face with some of the people who would feel the impact of the proposed cost cutting measures. At Teradyne's assembly line, he posed for pictures with a select group of workers. Later, he cited their stories as living proof that the American Dream is a reality...