Word: major
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...worried about the City of New York if people just out of college are fire marshals of floors in major buildings. I like to think they're old Irish guys...
Only a handful of major-league pitchers can throw consistently in the upper 90s--and even fewer can maintain that velocity past age 30. Yet Morris--who never threw faster than 88 m.p.h. during a minor league stint that ended 12 years ago--had only grown stronger. Maybe it was because he'd had a painful bone spur removed from his shoulder. Maybe it was the years of weight training and pitching at batting practice. All the Devil Rays knew was that they were having a pathetic season and were desperate for left-handed pitching...
They sent Morris through two of their minor league teams, and then two weekends ago, the Devil Rays added him to their roster, making him the oldest major league rookie in nearly three decades. He got his first assignment pitching in relief against the Texas Rangers and struck out Royce Clayton with a 96-m.p.h. fastball. A few days later, he pitched a full inning against the heart of the Anaheim Angels order and retired the side...
...seeing Yankee Stadium, so he went to junior college for a semester instead. Then he was chosen by the Milwaukee Brewers, only to spend three years playing minor league ball. So he went back to college and then on to teach high school physics and chemistry. He never watched major league baseball. Says his wife Lorri: "He would always see someone he played with in the minors, and he'd think, 'Why aren't I there...
Federal, state and local governments already play a major role in education and thus may hold the key to solving one crucial question hanging over IT's future. Actually, there are two questions: Will schools produce as many trained people as will be needed, and will enough of those technically skilled graduates come from poor and minority groups to make IT the great equalizer between economic haves and have-nots foreseen by some would-be prophets? At best, there is a long way to go. Right now, says Varian, "educational institutions are moving in fits and starts" to integrate computers...