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Moran’s tally marked the end of an offensive drought over a cumulative 239 minutes of play against four different teams...
...more than that. Many remember Fred McGriff’s game-tying home run in the All-Star game. The National League finally ended its Midsummer Classic drought. But Montrealers—we remember the five Expo all-stars. Hill pitched two scoreless innings. Cordero threw a runner out at home. Grissom homered off Randy Johnson. Darren Fletcher caught the top of the tenth. And Moises Alou doubled home Tony Gwynn to win it in the bottom half...
...first three months of 2004, after heavy losses for the same period last year, a sign that German banks can succeed by cutting excess retail staff and pruning bad debt. Media companies like Axel Springer, publisher of Bild and Die Welt, are bouncing back from a crippling advertising drought. Companies are winning important labor concessions. Siemens just sealed deals with workers in two of its mobile-phone factories to increase the workweek from 35 to 40 hours--with no increase in pay. And DaimlerChrysler won $600 million in wage concessions from its workers after threatening to move 6,000 Mercedes...
...Murray to the coaching squad, Harvard now boasts a teaching staff that has three national championships and two Herrmann Trophy—soccer’s equivalent of the Heisman trophy—winners between them. With the team looking to end a two-year-long NCAA tournament drought, the experienced winners on the sideline could be the right compliment to the on-field talent...
While amphetamine use was growing well before 2000, the post-drought switch to different drugs has many health professionals and drug agencies deeply worried. Amphetamine abuse in particular has severe side effects, including aggression and psychosis. No one knows the full extent of the post-drought migration from heroin to other illicit drugs. The National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre has examined this trend, but its long-awaited report has yet to be made public. Treatment admissions suggest many users have tried to break their habits since heroin supply fell, but drug workers see plenty of others who inject stimulants...