Word: hit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held onto the ball while tossing an Idaho potato carved to look like a baseball. Unamused, the umpire ruled that the run had scored. Dave's angry manager got him kicked off the team. Last week Bresnahan, now a real estate salesman, was vindicated. "Gehrig had to hit .340 and play in more than 2,000 consecutive games to get his number retired," he boasted. "All I had to do is hit less than .150 and throw a potato...
...company hardest hit is the Hyundai conglomerate (estimated 1987 revenues: $23 billion). Trouble started in early May, when a labor leader at the Hyundai Construction Co. was kidnaped in Seoul. Two company executives were eventually arrested and charged with paying thugs $27,000 to kidnap the man to force him to resign from the company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman...
Watkins proposed education initiatives that "are of such vital importance . . . that they must be implemented immediately," including comprehensive health courses in the schools and a program tailored to minority communities that have been hardest hit by AIDS. The chairman also suggested that the Surgeon General act as the Government's principal spokesman in health-care emergencies, with the authority to forge effective public policy speedily. As if to underscore the urgent tone of Watkins' draft report, the San Francisco department of public health and the federal Centers for Disease Control predicted last week, for the first time, that infection with...
...sprawling, neglected settlements separated from the prosperity of white South Africa. Honed into a humming, exuberant whole by Playwright-Director Mbongeni Ngema, they have turned convention on its head with a triumphant spirit and rollicking rhythm that transcend politics. In its ninth month, the show is a sold-out hit, readying spin-offs for Tokyo, London and Kingston...
...both so damn intense on the ice. We lose it on the ice," Sweeney says. "Sure, Jerry might hit a little bit more than I do, I may skate a little bit more than he does. But we both enjoy those aspects of the game. It may seem on a first basis level that we have contrasting styles, but we're not that contrasting...