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Word: isn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...show where batters connected with or pitchers threw a fastball, a breaking ball, and an off-speed pitch. Baseball purists hated it because it was so subjective (ratings were performed by "the Scouts"), but it was corny like baseball ought to be. This year the Fleer color graphic isn't as corny: each player's batting average or ERA is given for day, night, home and away games. These are cards you can sit down with for the Game of the Week...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Examining This Year's Baseball Cards | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...front of the Fleer card isn't as good as it could have been. Fleer was the best overall card last year, but this year's design of scattered blue and red diagonal stripes behind the photo complicates a good idea. The photo itself fades out near the top, so that a player's head sticks out into the background. It's a creative variation on last year's Fleer design, and it could carry the card without the complication of the stripes...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: Examining This Year's Baseball Cards | 4/9/1988 | See Source »

...think that one of the misconceptions is that our press...is objective, and that isn't the point of the freedom of the press," Boyle said. "There will always be a bias...[but in the U.S. the guarantee of freedom] means that the public is confronted with many different biases...

Author: By Charles D. Cheever, | Title: Harvard Students to Debate Soviets In April Tour of Four Russian Cities | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

Library maintenance has long been a problem inthe Soviet Union, because of the poor economicsituation of that country, Olmsted said. "Theresimply isn't enough money to go around. A lot ofpeople there are concerned for the future of allnational libraries...

Author: By Cynthia V. Hooper, | Title: Harvard Offers to Help Razed Leningrad Library | 4/5/1988 | See Source »

...scion of a wealthy coffee-growing family. His soft-spoken approach evidently convinced some Salvadorans that the party had moderated its views, and many were further swayed by ARENA's slick advertising campaign, with the slogan "We'll change for the better." Said Cristiani after the vote: "Our goal isn't to be a systematic opposition to President Duarte, but his government has to hear our ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador Right Turn | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

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