Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...However, he would lose his arrogance in bush stops like Wichita and Denver, shuttling to and from the big leagues for two years. In 1984 an aging Expos player soon to be a youthful Reds manager noticed him at once. "I was playing first base in Montreal," Pete Rose says, "when he fouled a ball straight back that caught some cement or it would have gone all the way out. I thought, 'Damn...
Still technically a player at 46, Rose begins to cut the full figure of a manager. Although he can activate himself anytime after May 15, it is conceivable that his jersey has already been retired with him in it. "Watching good young players grow up," he says, "is the fun thing about this job." The Reds' passel of young good ones includes Outfielders Kal Daniels and Tracy Jones, Infielders Barry Larkin and Kurt Stillwell and the impeccable relief pitcher John Franco. But every man on the team, including Ramrod Dave Parker, acknowledges that Davis is special. "Someday," says Parker...
According to a December poll by the Opinion Research Corporation, the percentage of Americans who think rising costs will put higher education out of the reach of most Americans rose from 77 percent in 1985 to 82 percent last year...
...trade deficit with Western Europe rose in the same period, to $2.5 billion from $1.9 billion in February, including a $1.6 billion trading shortfall with West Germany, the largest trade gap ever with that nation...
Nakasone and Reagan parted on an upbeat note during a final visit in the White House Rose Garden, and agreed that the trade deficit was "politically unsustainable." But both nations must now demonstrate far more than a will to discuss their problems during summit meetings. They must show that they can attack and solve the trade differences that are steadily turning the two close political and military friends into bitter economic rivals...