Word: pinches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...errors by Tulsa in the seventh and a pinch single by Kevin Hampe set the stage for three more tallies when Ignacio and DeMichele singled...
...scheme. The drawbacks are vast. With total freedom to choose their education, people might prefer the bliss of ignorance or fall prey to "charlatans, demagogues, clowns, miracle workers and messiahs." Abolishing required school attendance, as Mississippi did after the Supreme Court's desegregation order, might encourage pinch-penny governments to reduce their spending on education. The poor would thus be abandoned completely to the school of hard knocks. More subtly, making teachers depend on student demand might do grave harm to universities that now support "impractical" scholarship and to the intellectual freedom to criticize society. Illich cheerfully agrees that...
...holds the record for the most pinch-hit home runs...
...potential winning run was Cornell's big hitter. Pete Watzka, who had the Big Red's only two hits of the day. Watzka hit a deep drive to center, but Ignacio made a running catch of the fly. Pinch-hitter Joe Meo provided the crowning glory to Kelly's performance when he struck out for the final...
...five hospitals and more than 20 drug-treatment centers closed, and an end to open enrollment at the City University, which exiting Chancellor Albert Bowker says would in effect close the university. The list underscores the obvious: it is the city's poor who will most feel the pinch of declining services...