Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...markets during the fall and winter, is known as a players' league; it pays more--the average salary is $80,000 a year--and boasts of having the best players (Olympians Dawn Staley, Teresa Edwards and Katrina McClain). Playing in cities like San Jose, Calif., Richmond, Va., and Columbus, Ohio, the A.B.L. averaged 3,500 fans a game with very little TV exposure. By one estimate, the A.B.L. spent $6 million on salaries this year and $1.5 million on marketing. The W.N.B.A., on the other hand, is spending $15 million on marketing and $3 million on salaries...
...minors, where he made six starts, Irabu impressed his Yankee escorts with his fastball (high 90s), fork ball (high 80s) and fork. "He ate everything," said Arthur Richman, the 72-year-old club executive who accompanied Irabu at his stops in Florida, Connecticut, upstate New York and Ohio. "Steaks. Italian. Chinese. Yesterday I took him to the Second Avenue Deli, and he gulped down matzoh-ball soup and a turkey sandwich...
...elated at the empowerment of the FDA to regulate tobacco and the nicotine content of cigarettes. But, sadly, this is a step that should have been taken 50 years ago, when Bogie and Bacall first made smoking the chic way to die. SARAH ANASTASIA OLYNYK, age 14 Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...safe habit. A Marlboro Man or a cartoon camel had little to do with my smoking. Young people will always experiment--it is the nature of being young. Do people actually believe a cigarette will make them look like the Marlboro Man? I think not. JULIE BYRD Akron, Ohio...
...Friday, Ohio State officials established a presidential search committee to select Gee's successor...