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Letting Baylor go last year was a precipitous move by a team that wanted to get rid of many of its older players so it could allow the youngsters some badly-needed experience. However, this year, Baylor may be the missing ingredient which the Sox, if they truly want to win a division title, should go after. Picking up a veteran player, one who is usually on the downside of his career but can still provide crucial leadership and experience, is a common practice among teams contending for the division lead in August and September, and the Sox should take...
Tebuthiuron, better known by the trade name Spike, is a herbicide used to get rid of mesquite from rangeland and brush from along utility power lines in the arid American Southwest. Made only by Eli Lilly, the giant Indianapolis chemical company, Spike attacks woody plants for up to three years. After searching for several years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture discovered that Spike not only kills weeds but may be the first effective herbicide against the hardy coca plant, the source of cocaine...
Older alumni had in fact asked Yale President Benno C. Schmidt the previous day "When are you going to get rid of that dingy mess out there?" according to Charney, who was at Yale for his 20th reunion. He said that although Schmidt received applause at the symposium when he defended the shanties as an expression of free speech, the crowd reacted with mixed applause and boos when the president went on to defend Yale's $161 million in South Africa- linked holdings...
...offer to drop federal drug- running charges against him. With that, Shultz broke off talks and denounced Noriega as a "burden on the people of Panama." The Reagan Administration, he added for a little positive effect, would continue working with Panamanians and "democratic forces throughout the hemisphere" to get rid of the machete- waving dictator...
EACH year sixteen hundred parents send their little bundles of protoplasm off to Harvard with great delight. In addition to the obvious pleasure of having finally rid themselves of the slimey things--many of which are notorious for leaving their towels on the bathroom floor--the parents are now prematurely afforded the opportunity to declare success to all who will listen. Until graduation, Harvard students are automatically granted, or burdened with, success status. After graduation, it becomes their job to maintain...