Word: holdouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reportedly made damaging statements about himself and Bracy to a Marine buddy. While many civilian courts continue to require a unanimous jury verdict, only two-thirds of the jurors in a court-martial are needed for conviction -- meaning less chance that the defendants can fall back on one stubborn holdout...
Roger Clemens ending his holdout with the Boston Red Sox was the biggest sports story of the weekend on all of the major networks. And every one mentioned that the tall right-hander was scheduled to make his first appearance that afternoon. Against Harvard University...
Stanley, primarily a reliever throughout his career, started in place of Roger Clemens, who ended a 29-day holdout last weekend, and Dennis Boyd and Bruce Hurst, who are both nursing injuries...
Boston pitcher Roger Clemens said yesterday that he remained resolute in his 19-day contract holdout and accused Red Sox management of trying to use him as an example for the rest of the league...
Botha's outburst was directed at British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe, even though his government has been a holdout against the use of sanctions. Howe was winding up a futile week-long attempt to open a dialogue with the key players in South Africa's racial conflict. Despite his good intentions, he had been rudely rebuffed by both sides. As Howe was leaving Pretoria, Botha held his bitter press conference. He dismissed all such mediating efforts as "direct interference in our internal affairs" and part of "this hysterical outcry of certain Western countries against South Africa...