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White business leaders and the government would feel the pinch of the business decline, while blacks would suffer more severely from the higher unemployment. Opponents of disinvestment contend that American firms are among the most racially progressive. Their departure would reduce black influence in labor unions and on job conditions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assessing the Impact of Sanctions | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...runners on base when the game ended on pinch-hitter Dusty Baker's hard grounder back to Sambito on the mound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sox Zoom into First | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...confessed drug users (of one kind or the other lately permissible), a British chestnut addicted only to Guinness Stout (a pint a day with his oats and carrots) and that California fresh-air fiend Ferdinand. For all of his clean living, Ferdinand drew the dreaded rail, and the pinch at the start of the stampede was so precariously tight that Shoemaker had to stand virtually straight up in the irons. With every one of his 96 lbs., he yanked in the reins magnificently to hold Ferdinand on the course. They settled down into last place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fresh Roses for Shoe | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

...sacrifice fly by Renninger drove in pinch-runner Pat Sullivan, to tie the game...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Suffer From Splitting Headaches | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

...pinch-hitter Paul Rooney singled and scored on an error by Red left fielder Eric Olson, who misplayed a Renninger single...

Author: By Dan Breiner, | Title: Batsmen Suffer From Splitting Headaches | 5/5/1986 | See Source »

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