Word: forks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RELENTLESS STRUGGLE BETWEEN ATHLETES and team owners for a bigger slice of professional sports' financial pie, control of free agency has been the utensil of choice. Last week, following a 36-day trial, a federal court dropped the owners' favorite fork on the floor, ruling that the National Football League's limited free-agency plan was illegal and awarding four players $1.6 million in damages. The decision will probably lead to a less restrictive agreement and higher salaries...
...exploitative treatment is wrong. At the very least these farm workers are entitled to safe working conditions and their legally mandated benefits. This simple principle of fairness was established around the turn of the century. Unfortunately, the solution to the problem is more complicated then simply forcing employers to fork over another dollar per hour in wages...
...class resentment and malice toward foes linger too. Doubtless Nixon genuinely believes Boris Yeltsin to be like Khrushchev in concealing a razor-sharp intelligence behind a somewhat oafish exterior. But when he scorns the American "foreign policy elite" for sniffing at Yeltsin because the Russian might not know which fork to use at a state banquet, he is rather obviously settling some old personal scores, and when he calls Mikhail Gorbachev "a Soviet version of Adlai Stevenson," he does not mean it as a compliment...
Most Americans fork over an average 37.7% of their adjusted gross income in taxes. George Bush paid only 29.5% last year. Reason: he maintains his legal residence in Texas, one of only seven states without an income tax. According to MONEY magazine, the First Family reported an adjusted gross income of $452,732 in 1990 but paid only $3,596, or 0.8%, in state income taxes. Those levies probably went to Maine, where the President vacations each August. If Bush had declared Kennebunkport as his residence instead of Texas, where he doesn't even own a home, his state bill...
...will have not one or two or even dozens but thousands of processors working in concert. One company, Thinking Machines of Cambridge, Mass., introduced a gymnasium- size number cruncher that can perform up to 2 trillion operations a second. Now the firm just needs to find customers willing to fork over $200 million...