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...Jerry Reinsdorf, who just days after railing about the need to cap spending signed Albert Belle to a five-year, $52.5 million contract that made the slugger the highest paid player in baseball. Reinsdorf again voted no on the proposal and was joined by Cleveland, Kansas City and Oakland. Fourteen teams switched votes. "Actually, it's good for the White Sox because it dooms the small-market teams," Reinsdorf said. "There will be less for us to compete against." In fact, the deal does little to prevent the richer teams from continuing to outbid poorer, smaller market clubs for talent...
...Kerry-Weld race is one of 34 Senate races today. Fourteen of the contests are for open seats. Thirteen seats are held by Republicans, and seven are held by Democrats...
Their reasons for leaving vary. Bob Dole (R-Kans.) stepped down because he wants to be President. Fourteen of the incumbent seats being vacated in the House belong to those (all men) who wanted to run for the Senate--seven Republicans, seven Democrats. (Four of them did not survive the primary...
...Fourteen years ago, Landon formed a support group in Hollywood called LADIES--Life After Divorce Is Eventually Sane--which has helped the exes of Gene Hackman, Leonard Nimoy and Jerry Lewis, among others, survive a breakup. "The public thinks that money makes it different for us," says Landon, "but I've seen firsthand first wives of Oscar winners who moved from mansions to little apartments"--or even, for a while, to their cars...
...initial generation of mainframes (see IBM) gave way to a second generation of desktop PCs (see Apple, Microsoft), Clark saw a way to put that data-crunching power to work visualizing information ranging from aircraft fluid dynamics to rampaging velociraptors, then founded the company that made it happen. Fourteen years, 7,200 employees and $2.2 billion in annual revenues later, Silicon Graphics rules its own lucrative roost...