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Ryan and Valenzuela continued their battle, until Valenzuela was relieved by Dave Stewart in the bottom of the ninth. Stewart blew fast balls by Cesar Cedeno, made Art Howe fly to center, then gave up a pinch-hit single to Craig Reynolds. Ashby followed with his three-run homer...
Greg Lyss is part of a vocal minority. "Everyone says the mixer was bad," he says. "These people just don't know how to enjoy themselves. You boogie a little, cruise around, pinch a few asses--it's great! Of course, it helps to drink a pint of gin beforehand. But you know what: The highlight of the entire week was the square dance. You definitely had to be shitfaced for that...
...some "nicer" areas stand out. In one of these residential neighborhoods, I had dinner with a professor at a Calcutta institute for managerial studies. He talked of the frustrations of working to improve health and sanitation conditions, the impracticability of any attempts at concerted policies, and the tight pinch of a runaway inflation rate on all but the wealthiest members of the country's industrial establishment. "When we graduated from college, we thought that our purpose was to do something worthwhile for out nation," he told me. "Now, I would just tell my son to try to support and take...
...full-time positions at an average hospital. Says Tina Filoromo, president of the National Association of Nurse Recruiters: "As long as there were herds of us at the front door, no one cared how many went out the back door. Now hospitals are feeling the pinch...
Though the walkout will continue to pinch the revenues of all commercial airlines in the short run, the longer term prospects may not be so bleak. Air carriers may have to operate at reduced schedules for perhaps a full year, while the Federal Aviation Administration trains new air-traffic controllers to replace those fired by the President last week. This would force the companies to curtail flights of their less efficient planes, including DC-9s and Boeing 727s, and ultimately to accelerate the selling off of the aging planes, which has actually already been under way for months. With fewer...