Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Carew missed seven weeks with a hand in jury, the Angels found one bright spot: the play of his substitute, Willie Mays Aikens, named for the famous centerfielder and born the month that Mays and the Giants were destroying the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series. Angel luck being what it is, Aikens later wrecked his knee, and is out for the year. The last straw was the injury to Pitcher Jim Barr (10-12), one of eight Angels who have signed contracts of over $1 million. After the team clinched the Western title last week, a young...
...Education. Just establishing the new department will eat up more than $14 billion of federal funds--a large and misdirected sum for a goal as vague as increasing the "visibility" of educational issues. And as the floundering Department of Energy has shown, such agencies don't have much luck in getting off the ground...
...visit for the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, tells us that the holy plane will arrive on time. "But it's going to be downhill from there," he says. Look at the times in your "bible" (news lingo for the itinerary); miss the bus and it's your tough luck. "If the buses are scheduled to leave at 3:30, and the Pope doesn't leave until 5:00, the buses will leave at 3:30." The Christian spirit...
...team went on the road to Southern Connecticut Saturday and came home with a 1-0 victory. The bad news is that the stickwomen left the impressive ball-control offense they had sported in their previous outings back home in Soldiers Field, perhaps intended as some sort of good-luck charm for the Crimson gridders...
...failure came under closer scrutiny. Some 200,000 U.S. firms declare bankruptcy annually, and the right to fail is as much a part of the capitalist system as the right to succeed. Bankruptcy is the free system's harsh but necessary means of purging companies that, through bad luck or bad management, fail to win enough customers in the marketplace...