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...lightning in 1965 and lost one of its huge limbs. Another storm in 1976 battered the tree even more, and now decay has begun to eat at the 4½-ft. trunk. Its leaves, once deep green and dense, are thinning. They have fallen for the winter, and the likelihood is that next spring they will not regain even this year's reduced vigor. But the family will...
After World War II, members of the victorious Alliance recognized that open trade, which creates global interdependence, would reduce the likelihood of international conflict. The world's trading partners formed GATT so that they could meet at occasional conferences to make mutual commitments to tariff reductions. Nations agreed to lower their trade barriers and to accept increased imports in exchange for the opportunity to expand exports...
...year veteran (who used to have no guarantee). For the first time, severance checks will go to the fired and the retired, up to $140,000 for veterans of twelve years or more. But if cash was all that the players gained, the embarrassing likelihood is that this deal could have been struck weeks ago. In the delicate final week of negotiations, the catalyst-"escape valve," Commissioner Pete Rozelle called him-was Paul Martha, 40, a former Pittsburgh Steeler now a Pittsburgh attorney. Martha is a friend of Steeler President Dan Rooney, who had a large voice in management...
Corbat doesn't emphasize the prospects of playing professional football. It doesn't seem to be that important to him. "If I were drafted in the top eight rounds, then I would seriously consider playing. But I don't forsee that as a likelihood. If I was [drafted up high], then it would mean that those teams [Oakland, San Francisco, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Seattle and the New York Jets] are serious enough about me to make me serious about them. I'm just not psyched to be somebody's piece of meat somewhere...
Bolden, 30, struck a deal with the prosecutors: in return for pleading guilty to murder and testifying that Carthan hired him, he was offered the likelihood of only eight years in prison instead of a possible death sentence. He took the stand last Wednesday in the murder trial of Carthan, but much of his testimony was ruled inadmissible as hearsay, since Hester alone had made all the alleged arrangements with Carthan. The next day a new plea bargain was struck, this one with Hester: for testifying that he and Bolden had killed Granderson on Carthan's orders...