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...first pitch in what is certain to be an legal slugfest over the baseball owners' effort to implement a salary cap headed for the courts today as the players union filed unfair labor practices charges and asked federal officials to block the cap by seeking a court injunction. Meanwhile, the owners counterattacked asking the same federal panel ---- the National Labor Relations Board -- to find that the players' union is negotiating in bad faith...
Until Lexington, Asa had never cleanly dunked in a game. With Wenner at a feverish pitch on that day, however, he did it. I can still see Rashad Wilson losing the ball at midcourt and Pat Rubeski picking it up. I can still see Pat turning his head to find Asa--now 6'7"--flying up the court. I can still see Pat unselfishly but knowingly dishing the ball to Asa at the foul line. I can still see Asa taking one more step and then launching himself into the air. Asa sent the ball through the net with...
Already, the sales pitch is several decibels louder. On his trip to Latin America last month, Perry said he would entertain requests from Argentina and Brazil for the U.S. Air Force's frontline F-16 fighters. Washington once discouraged such sales. In April the Administration, reversing U.S. policy, permitted Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding to begin talks on constructing diesel submarines -- worth $350 million each -- for Egypt and other countries. And Rockwell International Corp. has begun seeking foreign buyers for its $80 million-a-copy AC-130 gunship, a specially modified cargo plane that puts a 105-mm howitzer into...
...many Harvard students, the pitch works...
President Clinton -- while pitching most of his remarks to domestic politics -- kicked off the 34-nation Summit of the Americas in Miami with a pitch for Western-hemisphere nations to join a giant free-trade zone by 2005. "This is a magic moment -- let us seize it," Clinton told an assembly of summit organizers and U.S. and foreign business leaders, stressing that the "partnership for prosperity" would create jobs at home. U.S. trade officials admit that such a trade zone is most valuable in U.S. political terms for the moment, since draft language doesn't call for final international negotiations...