Word: minore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...measure as it now reads because of its harsh death-penalty provisions, nevertheless agreed to help return the bill to the House floor for further debate. At week's end members of both parties were discussing a deal that would create a sexual-predator task force, make minor revisions in the measure's assault-weapons ban, and slash more than 10% of the bill's $33 billion funding...
...formal debate on health-care reform dragged on, the Senate finally did something and voted on a number of minor amendments to majority leader George Mitchell's bill. Meanwhile, a fluid "mainstream" coalition of moderate Democrats and Republicans endured long negotiations to craft an alternative proposal that, while somewhat less inclusive, is thought by many to represent the Senate's best shot at passing a bill. The mainstream plan would cover about 92% of the population, would cut out many of the regulations in the Mitchell plan, and aims to lower the federal deficit. But Republicans, led by minority leader...
...candor. "I was a first baseman who didn't hit for power. The fact that I was a well-below-average runner didn't help." Pitching coach Dave LaRoche did make it to the Show, compiling a 65-58 record in a career that lasted 14 seasons. Yet the minors attract him on a gut level. "If I wasn't in baseball," LaRoche says, "I would live in a town with a minor league team so my kids could go all the time...
This week Gladstone is having far more fun than O'Malley. Gladstone has a team in the thick of a hot pennant race. O'Malley has an empty park. "Minor league baseball is not a microcosm of the big leagues," says Gladstone. For that, fans should be eternally grateful...
...Only Game in Town: The joys of the minor leagues...