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...overturned by an arbitrator in 1975. Today even middling players are being given $300,000 contracts. Unable to restrain themselves, the owners demanded statutory relief. Said Houston Astros Owner John McMullen: "You just can't permit salaries to keep escalating like this." The players won some major pocketbook concessions. The minimum salary for a first-year player, now $21,000, goes to $30,000 this season and $35,000 by 1983. The ball clubs' annual pension contribution rises from $8.3 million to $ 15.5 million, boosting retirement benefits 60%. At age 50, a ten-year player can now collect...
...power in the United States Senate. For over two decades, this Democrat of the Bourbon South has controlled the Senate Finance Committee like his own fiefdom. He thus personally approves every piece of legislation which touches what Harry Truman called, "the most sensitive nerve in the human body--the pocketbook nerve." Without a doubt, Long's VAT proposal will pinch the money nerves of all Americans...
...have the endowment, Harvard has, we don't have the resources," James Blake, public relations director for the college, said yesterday. "Everything we have is mortgaged, and no matter what we would like to do we have to temper it with our pocketbook," he added...
...with their customers. In 1974 Shernoff not only persuaded a jury to award Egan $123,600 in damages for lost benefits and emotional distress, but he also won a whopping $5 million in punitive damages. That was a blow to Mutual's image as well as to its pocketbook: under California law, punitive damages are awarded to punish and deter "oppression, fraud or malice...
...French, West German and Low Country Liberals, with 40) can come to a working alliance, they should be able to dominate the Parliament for its first five-year term. The Socialists publicly refused a common "popular front" with the 44 Communists and their allies, although on such pocketbook issues as prices and unemployment they may make common cause...