Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Since you became a special assistant to the commissioner of baseball almost two years ago, major league teams have hired 21 managers or general managers. Only one, Frank Robinson of the Baltimore Orioles, is black. Has all the soul- searching following Al Campanis' remarks led merely to more empty rhetoric...
...There are corollary difficulties. Some of the most competent and attractive minority candidates are not interested in jobs they've been offered. Or you have candidates like Joe Morgan, who can't just give up businesses that gross millions of dollars a year to go off and become a general manager somewhere. Also, in the post-Campanis era, any new black manager or general manager will be under a microscope and very likely second- guessed on everything he does. Quite frankly, some people look at that situation and simply say, "I don't want the job that badly...
...affirmative action involved in it. But if you had an affirmative-action plan in the N.B.A. based on society at large, you'd have 10% black players and 90% white players. As a tool, affirmative action would be counterproductive. The front-office situation in baseball, in sports in general, is not amenable to traditional civil rights remedies...
...challenge of a computer and a Steinway grand yet are relatively easy to use. The boards can produce a dazzling range of musical effects, sounding jazzy or elegant at the flick of a button or a switch. And though top-end pro keyboards can cost upwards of $3,000, general consumer models for the "hobbyist" market usually go for a couple of hundred dollars. Besides having model numbers that make them sound like racing cars, boards like the Yamaha DX7IIFD look like the instrument panel of a new Ferrari prototype. The Roland E-20 ($2,500) even has a liquid...
...hard-pressed people, few are more tragic than the history of affliction borne by the Indians of the U.S. Years of reservation life have left many of them mired in poverty and despair. In Washington the Senate's Select Committee on Indian Affairs is holding hearings on the general state of Indian problems, and they seem to be no better than ever: a high rate of alcoholism and mortality, desperate health conditions, low employment and income, rampant child abuse. Bad enough that years of failed policies administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs have contributed to the difficulties...