Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employees, would blinker off the surrounding atmospherics. The cameras would, in fact, provide a kind of visual Congressional Record-except of course that members would not be permitted to edit their remarks, as they often do now before the Record is printed. The TV tapes, or a live cable feed, would be made available to the commercial and public broadcast networks to edit and broadcast as they wished...
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...
...mystique: each sheet is unique, with bubbles, streaks, ripples, tints, curves and a translucency that seems to give it a life of its own. This so-called "antique" glass, obtainable in some 3,000 colors and shadings, is imported almost exclusively from European makers, who cannot produce enough to feed the American market...
Finally, nine months after the initial shipment error, Frederic Halbert, one of the first farmers to receive the tainted grain, had a Master's Degree in chemical engineering, and used his training to pinpoint PBB as the source of his herd's ailments. Halbert, suspecting that his feed grain was impure, sent grain samples to state laboratories. The labs failed to find anything unusual, so he sent samples to labs outside the state, where researchers finally determined that the sample was laced with PBB. The FDA stepped in, setting the maximum level of PBB in cattle at 1 part...
...feed poisoned more than cattle. Cats, rats, earthworms and even flies died on the farm soon after the first PBB grain shipment, Jones said. And it affected his family...