Word: major
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomorrow night the alumni, who are chairmen of class committees or major advance donors, will attend a cocktail party and dinner at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston...
Whether a university's investments give it the ability--or the right--to influence corporate behavior was a major point in the South Africa controversy...
After an amicable, divorce from a pastoral marriage with the Ivy League, he is hazarding the next, enormous step up--to major league baseball...
...weeks off after graduation, then made the almost cliched baseball pilgrimmage to south Florida and a shot at the bigs. The Astros assigned him to their Sarasota single A team, (the minor leagues are arranged in three levels, with A the lowest and AAA the highest, just below the majors) where Brown had to join the club without benefit of a major league spring training camp...
...playing ball again. He sees next year as pivotal: "It'll be my first full year and by the end of next year I should know my chances." The Double A league is his immediate goal. "A lot of people fail to realize that Triple A is usually for major league players who are hurt or who are old," he said, adding, "The Astros took three or four from Double A last year...