Word: retainers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Salaries, which average $350,000 in the league, are not the chief issue. What players mainly want is fewer restrictions on free agency so they will have more mobility to move from team to team when their contracts expire. They also want, among other things, to retain the estimated $10 million a year they receive from trading cards; team owners have been arguing for contract language that could give them a bigger piece of that business. Unfortunately, both sides in the dispute see little chance of salvaging the play-offs...
...Germany's military power cannot be ignored. Its armed force of 454,000 is Europe's largest. And it is assuming increasing responsibility for its security as the U.S. draws down its forces in Europe. Some German military demands are inevitable. If France and Britain retain their nuclear deterrent forces, for example, Germany probably will want to have a say in how they are used to protect a future united Europe. If not, says Valance, "Germany may one day decide to acquire nuclear arms to deal with the threat of the ones in Ukraine...
...prepared statement, USAir Shuttle President Gordon Linkon said the renamed shuttle will keep its "simple" check-in procedures and retain many of its employees...
...Rutgers program was almost axed two years ago, and was saved only after women athletes filed a lawsuit to retain the program. That goes a long way towards explaining what happened Sunday afternoon...
...figures, however, do not include incidents staged by terrorists who operate within one country with little or no foreign state sponsorship, such as the Irish Republican Army, the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Even the more conventional Middle East-based terrorists retain a dangerous capacity for bloodshed, as evidenced by the mid- March bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and assaults by Kurdish separatists who last week machine-gunned a bus in Istanbul and attacked policemen and police stations in five cities throughout Turkey...