Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted by a number of major league players who actually applied to join the minor leaguers in a mandatory testing program now four months along. Whether there are enough to spur the union now is the question. Because by week's end Ueberroth's deadline for responses expired, and he was beaten back into the dismal channels of collective bargaining. Though not cleaving...
...million worth of shares, will not go gentle into the night. He is launching a new computer company that could compete directly with Apple (1984 sales: $1.5 billion). Already Jobs has outraged Apple's board by persuading five of the company's managers, including top engineers and marketers, to join him in his venture...
...staff Next, Jobs has apparently turned to at least one former partner. Wozniak said last week that Jobs had called him earlier and left a message that he wanted Woz, as the Apple co-founder is known, to join Jobs in his new venture. Wozniak, whose relations with Jobs have been strained for months, had yet to return the call...
...Beginning with cultural institutions, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it has spread to trend-spotting stores (New York City's Bergdorf Goodman and Bloomingdale's). Then it mushroomed as smaller institutions around the nation clamored to join...
Chamorro wrote that the CIA directed the rebel leaders' quest for Congressional funding, wrote their speeches and policy, and forced them to join with members of the former Nicaraguan dictator Gen. Anastasio Somoza's National Guard. The witnesses testified about reported contra atrocities and gave estimates of the damage to and legitimacy of the Nicaraguan government...