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George Brett arrives at the ballpark hours earlier than most of his teammates, hanging around the clubhouse playing hearts while he waits for a quorum to form. Once enough playmates have arrived, Brett is first on the field, shagging flies in the outfield, playing pepper on the side, joking with fans in the stands, gamboling around the bases after he finishes his turn in the batting cage. "Young Willie Mays must have been like this," Reserve Kansas City Royals Utility Player Jamie Quirk once said of Brett. "To George, playing baseball is just plain...
...yesterday's meeting, the committee considered only Hatfield's amendment. The session, which followed several fruitless meetings last week when the panel could not draw a quorum, lasted for 30 minutes, with Hatfield and Sen. John C. Stennis (D-Miss.) squaring off in the committee room...
...Student Assembly, without a quorum, voted last night to urge the administration to reconsider the appointment of Arnold C. Harberger to the directorship of the Harvard Institute for International Development...
...members present at the time of the vote passed the resolution as a "committee of the whole," because more than 25 representatives left early, leaving the meeting without the 41 members necessary for a quorum...
...given the pivotal role in a new regime. Nicaraguan politicians speculated that he would announce his abdication at an emergency session of the National Assembly that he called late last week. But because so many of the 100 legislators failed to attend, Somoza could not put together a quorum, and the session was postponed...