Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With one out in the seventh, Brock doubled off the wall in left-center and took third on Kiefer's ground single to left. However, Hurst got pinchhitter Joey Meyer to ground into an inning-ending double play...
Gifford, who is also a member of the Harvard Square Advisory Committee, said Harvard should get out of the real estate business, adding that the University breaks community ground rules as it searches for zoning loopholes...
...coverage of black unrest. The policy seems to have worked: in the weeks after the ban was imposed, first the disorders disappeared from the world's headlines, then the unrest itself began to subside. Other nations have shielded their conflicts from public scrutiny in a similar fashion. The bloody ground war between Iran and Iraq goes unmentioned in the world's press for months at a time because reporters have no access to the front lines. In the first years after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, almost nothing was known about the course of the conflict, though thousands were dying. When...
...tumult in the industry is beginning to change the standings of the largest retailers. Sears has held the top spot for 24 years, but K mart is gaining ground fast. Between 1983 and 1987, K mart's annual sales jumped 37%, to $25.6 billion, while Sears' volume increased only 12%, to $28.1 billion. At this rate, K mart could overtake Sears' merchandise group within two years...
...Commissioner Lawrence Gibbs admits to some problems with tax collection but opposes the bill on the ground that the agency can correct any abuses internally. He points out that some of the measures in the proposed law, like the call for clear publications listing taxpayers' rights, have already been adopted. Pryor praises Gibbs for his efforts but says internal reform of the IRS can go only so far: "Gibbs has the same problem as Gorbachev. He is fighting with his own entrenched bureaucracy that is reluctant to give up power...