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Robinson lasted one-third of an inning in his starting debut, suffering four hits and four errors. Rose eventually arrived at the mound. " 'I got to take you out,' he told me. 'No reason. I just got to. You got bad luck or something, kid. Go home and turn your mirrors the other way.' " That was worse than devastating, but not as awful as being the last...
...after a typical West Point reform, plebes are ordered to eat. "It isn't milk and cookies," insists Cadet First Captain Timothy Knight, the ranking cadet who is also known as the King of Beasts. "Plebes still feel the heat." Many find it too much to bear. Almost one-third of each class drops out, or is thrown out, before graduation...
...leaders, and the people of the world are watching to see what will happen. It is not clear where Gorbachev is going, or how far. Soviet strength in Asia has grown; that's true. Their naval strength in the Pacific is the same as their strength in the Atlantic. One-third of [their] strategic missiles are directed against the Asian Pacific region, and that includes China, of course. They have 1 million troops with modern equipment on the Sino-Soviet border...
Although it has one-third more manpower than NATO, and twice as much armor and artillery, the pact is evidently under considerable strain. When the signatory nations met last April in Warsaw to formally renew the alliance for 20 more years, Nicolae Ceausescu of Rumania let it be known that he favored an extension of only five years. Many East Europeans view the 535,000 uniformed Soviet soldiers stationed in their countries as an army of occupation. That impression is reinforced by the ultimate control exercised by Soviet officers during military maneuvers, which are conducted four times a year...
Moreover, many firms that received bank loans in flush times have turned out to be bad credit risks whose problems have been compounded by plunging property and stock values. In Kuwait an estimated one-third of some bank portfolios are made up of loans on which borrowers are no longer making interest payments. In Saudi Arabia, only two of ten banks last year reported an increase in earnings...