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...twice in his eight-year major league career. Is Winfield worth it? Says Baltimore Oriole General Manager Hank Peters: "Not in my judgment. I don't think any athlete in any team sport can be important enough to command that kind of money." But Winfield had a ready retort: "Everything has a market value. How do you set a price on a precious...
...about Reagan's positions because you can't get much on the three-by-five cards that he has used for decades to make speech notes." Reagan shot back later: "[Connally] must have been living under a rock." Reagan, 68, brushed aside questions about his age. One retort: "I'm really not that old. They mixed up the babies at the hospital...
...Retort some whites: "Save a fish-spear an Indian...
...only about one week's supply of oil. If not oil, then natural gas could be drawn from Georges Bank. But the estimated yield of 870 billion cu. ft. over 20 years is paltry compared with the 19.3 trillion cu. ft. now used annually in the U.S. The retort by oil advocates, of course, is that in an energy crisis any possible sources should be explored...
...above-ground method in which the shale is "distilled" in somewhat the same way that moonshiners extract alcohol from corn mash. After the shale is mined, the rock is crushed. Union Oil then moves shale chunks through a towering surface retort, where hot gases heat it to release the kerogen. Colony uses a different process: it cooks finely ground shale in giant drums by mixing the marl with superheated, marble-size ceramic balls that distribute the temperature evenly and vaporize the kerogen. The balls are then separated from the spent shale by a screen, reheated and used again...