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...Phillies had the luxury of Holland in the bullpen. He had a club-record 25 saves and an earned run average of 2.26 during the regular season. He retired pinch-hitter Dan Ford on a fly to left on the first pitch, ending the Baltimore threat...
Holland, in the ninth, retired the Orioles in order, getting Cal Ripken Jr., Eddie Murray and pinch hitter Gary Roenicke...
Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit of uranium. While the routine little experiment proceeded all was peace and quiet in the laboratory. There was no crash of thunder, no flash of cataclysmic lightning...
...isolate and regulate dangerous chemicals. At least five states, including New York, California and Connecticut, have passed Right to Know laws and more than a dozen state legislatures are currently considering similar provisions. Clearly, the issue will not go away nor can states afford to close their eyes or pinch pennies on protection. As one of the bill's proponents remarked in response to charges that the list of hazardous chemicals was too lengthy, "It', not our fault there are 40,000 toxic chemicals out there." When a single concern can more than amply fill the pages of a bimonthly...
Baranczak, who will be up for tenure in 1986, blames the tight academic job market for the difficulties foreign scholars have in getting employment. With all academics feeling the pinch, "It is understandable that a university would favor American citizens to reduce the tensions of the job market," he says, adding that "American natives have certain advantages in getting tenure more quickly than scholars from Eastern Europe, for example." At some universities, American-born Slavic scholars have been preferred for tenure over Polish refugees with weak English skills. In matters of tenure, "There shouldn't be an exception for people...