Word: pied
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...time has come for a little historical perspective. Labor unrest has been as American as apple pie, hot dogs and home runs since 1636. In that benighted year, well before any of the aforementioned institutions -- including the very nation itself -- had been invented, the gentlemen who owned the fishing boats on Richmond Island, off the coast of Maine, imposed the first known salary cap. In their wisdom, they withheld all the wages of their crews for an entire year, a hardball move if ever there was one. Not surprisingly, the fishermen went on strike. Since then there have been tens...
...claim to be as ludicrous as the current work stoppages bedeviling professional sports. In baseball and hockey, multimillionaire owners have been pleading impending poverty. On the other side, players, some of whom are also multimillionaires, stamp their size 13s and demand a bigger share of the pie. It's the rich vs. the megarich in a spectacle almost as distasteful to watch as the intramurals among the wackos of the House of Windsor. If there are principles involved, and both sides swear there are, they do not make sense to anyone but the principals. To the rest of the nation...
...comes down to money and greed, pure and simple," says Paul Much, senior managing director of the firm Houlihan, Lokey, Howard & Zukin, which counsels investors on opportunities such as sports. "This is about who gets a bigger share of the pie." The owners have deluded themselves into thinking the players should happily assist them in that redistribution, which violates human nature as well as labor history. Leigh Steinberg, perhaps the most powerful individual agent in professional sports, with some 150 clients under contract, agrees, "These sports are showing an incredible amount of self- destruction. This is a golden opportunity squandered...
...still has serious drawbacks compared with cable. Despite the space-age technology, satellite dishes cannot deliver one very homely piece of the media pie: local stations. To get them, satellite customers must either switch back to an ordinary antenna or maintain their basic cable service. Despite a better-quality picture, moreover, DBS depends on a clear line of sight to the southern sky (where DBS satellites are floating 22,000 miles above the earth) and can be disrupted by storms. And bugs still remain in the digital picture quality: very fast action, such as football plays, can sometimes break...
African-American traditions are being "sacrificed on the altar of American culture, which causes us to sell our souls for a bigger piece of the American pie," Butts added...