Word: hung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Regardless of big attendance, Manager Tommy Lasorda, whose office walls are hung with pictures of such pals as Frank Sinatra and Comedian Don Rickles, sees no humor in being in a virtual tie for first place. Without the early season injuries, which are now mostly behind them, he feels sure the Dodgers would be soaring. Mildly but logically, Lasorda points to the fact: "You can't have two out of eight starters out and not be hurt...
...lurks the big shadow of the creaky but still powerful Big Red Machine in Cincinnati. The Reds have hung tight all season despite a below par year from one of baseball's alltime great pitchers, Tom Seaver, and injuries to former M.V.P.s, such as Catcher Johnny Bench and Second Baseman Joe Morgan. Last year's M.V.P., George Foster, is leading the league in RBls. The hottest news around Cincinnati lately has been Pete Rose's 44-game hitting streak, one of the major reasons why the Reds have clung so close to the lead. If Seaver should...
...worst years, a certain begrimed anxiety hung in the air. New York City was an interminably terminal case, its official death notice reprinted weekly. Bonds came due; corporations bailed out for Connecticut, the Sunbelt, anywhere. Citizens could paraphrase the municipal hymn New York, New York: "The Bronx is up/ And the battery's dead." They envisioned weeds pushing up through the stones of Rockefeller Center, Roseland reverting to jungle. Watching the parade of garbage strikes and pedestrians high-stepping in a rage among the dogmerde, New Yorkers could imagine themselves being a little like the sailors on Joseph Conrad...
Assad is no democrat. The opposition is subjected to wiretapping, and enemies of the regime are not only imprisoned or exiled but sometimes publicly hung in Damascus' main square after summary trials. Assad keeps the security forces firmly under his control (all of the senior officers must be Alawi). Inside Damascus, a special 9,000-man infantry division, commanded by Assad's brother Rifaat, protects the President and his regime. There are stories of Rifaat's ruthless excesses: people losing a choice villa or apartment because he wanted it for a friend, or brutal beatings of someone who is less...
Sick pay is one of those necessary and sensible corporate institutions that are often abused. If an employee is hung over or simply does not feel like working because it is a lovely day, he can call in with a feigned case of the blahs. That escape hatch from the workaday world is being mildly threatened by a newfangled idea aimed at throwing dedicated malingerers into a dilemma: well...