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Word: employed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said before, all aspects of IAB basketball are competitive. Before you can play in a center-court game you must undergo a harrowing ritual which takes place along the sidelines--choosing a team. There are many devices, that potential general managers employ in trying to acquire high-caliber players and create a dynasty...

Author: By Bill Ginsberg, | Title: Hooping It Up at the IAB | 3/14/1978 | See Source »

...fireballing relief pitcher, and Rawly Eastwick of the St.,Louis Cardinals, who had an off year in 1977 but was the League's top reliever for the Reds in 1976. Since the American League's No. 1 fireman, Cy Young Winner Sparky Lyle, was already in Yankee employ, Steinbrenner's bullpen overkill brought immediate-and pained-reaction. Lyle paused between banquet speeches long enough to scream, "Trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Togetherness in Fort Lauderdale | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

What Martin has in mind is to employ the strategy pioneered by Reds' Manager Sparky Anderson: pull his starters after six innings or so in order to feed the talented bullpen. That tactic could save fragile arms, but it will prevent healthy pitchers from going the full nine innings that build stats-and egos. No less an expert than Lyle acknowledges: "Show me a starting pitcher who doesn't like to finish what he starts. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Togetherness in Fort Lauderdale | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...side effects centers on two plans known by the acronym TIP, for tax-based incomes policy. Both call for a system of federally set guideposts,* and would use federal taxes as a means of discouraging large wage settlements. The main difference between the two plans is that one would employ a stick, the other a carrot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Search for Stagflation Remedies | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Blacks and other minorities must employ economically pragmatic solutions to eliminate poverty and unemployment in America, Bobby Seale, co-founder and former chairman of the Black Panther Party, told a group of about 200 students at Wellesley College last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seale Advocates Pragmatism To Solve Problems of the Poor | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

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