Word: short
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...only scare came in the fifth inning, when she had to face a one-out, bases loaded situation. Rowning got Bonnie Coutu to pop up to Crowley in centerfield and Hayes nabbed the final out of the inning when she threw out Seema Hingorani on a groundball to short...
...although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 generally bars large employers from discriminating on grounds of race, sex, religion, or national origin, it does not cover employers with fewer than 15 employees, has a short statute of limitations and allows victims of discrimination only reinstatement with back pay. Under the Runyon decision, section 1981 protection was interpreted to apply to all private employers, regardless of size. And victims of discrimination have a right to punitive damages for outrageous violations...
...essence, the trade bill rejects both unrestricted free trade and short-sighted protectionism, embracing "fair-trade." The bill authorizes the President to retaliate against trading partners that persistently engage in unfair practices...
...hardly obsolete. All of Singer's short fiction, from long-established classics like Gimpel the Fool to the latest story, hot off the presses, is amazingly of a piece. Three basic formulas are constantly repeated. Unrest stirs a rural Polish village, thanks to the mischief of its inhabitants and their attendant demons. An aspiring young author passes his time in Warsaw visiting the Yiddish Writers' Club and storing up everything he hears and does. An older incarnation of the same man, expatriated from Poland and living on Manhattan's Upper West Side, submits willingly to readers and strangers who come...
WASHINGTON--The Senate approved, 63-36, and sent to the White House a sweeping trade bill yesterday, but supporters fell short of the two-thirds victory margin needed to override a threatened presidential veto...