Word: minors
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...course, money is a significant statistic, and Rose's famous ambition was to become the "first $100,000 singles hitter." His original minor-league salary was $400 a month. For being the National League's rookie of the year in 1963, he received a $5,000 raise that brought his annual pay to $12,500. Twenty years later, he was earning $10,000 a game...
...Mahdi's refusal to lift the state of emergency imposed after the ouster of President Gaafar Nimeiri in 1985. El Mahdi also ignored demands by the predominantly Christian rebels for nullification of the Shari'a, the Islamic law that imposes harsh penalties like amputation and stoning for even minor crimes. Army officers were further angered by el Mahdi's mismanagement of Sudan's economic crisis, which has saddled Sudan with a $13 billion foreign debt...
...mostly electrons and protons, that form a solar wind blowing from the sun in all directions. It is this continuously flowing wind that feeds particles into the earth's Van Allen radiation belts and distorts the terrestrial magnetic field into a teardrop shape. It also sets off the frequent minor auroral displays visible at higher latitudes...
MAJOR LEAGUE. In a season thick with baseball flicks, David S. Ward gives us a rowdy, genial, cynical comedy about a fanciful Cleveland Indians team. Populated by rejects from the Mexican, minor and California penal leagues, this motley Tribe can't lose. The dialogue is breezy, the tone acerb and the climax as predictably uplifting as Rocky...
...eleven years melted away; indeed, the previous 31 years melted away. The lanky 6-ft. 4-in. frame had filled out a bit, and the wavy blond hair was now speckled with gray, but when Cliburn, 54, once again sailed into the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, he demonstrated that neither age nor idleness had diminished his extraordinary technique. The thundering octaves still thundered; the glittering passage-work still glittered. More important, he played this mindlessly beautiful showpiece with a lifetime of love...