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...certain sad cast to it. But baseball is founded on statistics, after all, and as Rose puts it wonderfully, "If you have 70-some hits against Phil Niekro, and you have 40-some hits against Joe Niekro, that's over 100 hits against the Niekro family, isn't it? One-fortieth of my hits. Who wouldn't know that? Don't you know how much money you have in the bank?" At the same time, his prized distinction is the fact that he has played in 1,916 winning games. "That's about 180 more winning games than Joe DiMaggio...
...which policy goals is a good indication of his priorities. Gore would increase federal spending on our public schools by 50 percent, or $115 billion over 10 years, the single biggest expansion in a generation. Bush only proposes an additional $13.5 billion in spending over five years, less than one-fortieth the amount he wants to spend on an across-the-board tax cut that would primarily benefit the top five percent of income earners...
...money as possible, charged everything to my credit card and made all my reservations by international phone call. Then the airlines got wise to me. If I stayed in an Exorbitant Suites Hotel (on the new Executive Floor), they said, or rented an Expense-o- Car, I could earn one-fortieth of a ticket to Kalamazoo. Then, just as I was booking cars I didn't need, they introduced segments. That meant that if I flew from Seattle to Vancouver via Chico, Oshkosh, Bullhead City and Purgatory (Colorado), I might clock up enough miles to make the same trip...
...years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have some 70 hits against Phil Niekro, and some 40 hits against Joe Niekro, is it twisted to be aware that you have over 100 hits -- one-fortieth of all your hits -- against Mrs. Niekro's sons, and to wish she'd had more children? Doesn't everyone know how much money they have in the bank...
...serving their first tour of duty in the Army, 25 had college degrees. Roughly one-fortieth of one per cent. Those figures in mind, we call for a resumption of the draft for military service--not only in the interests of fundamental justice, but also in the hope of changing the military and foreign policies of this nation...