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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name Enteron. As it happened, enteron is another word for the human digestive system. Randal Blauvelt, a spokesman for the new company, recalls that the coincidence was especially unfortunate for a manufacturer of natural gas. Says he: "It was nonstop joking. But we lived through it." And decided to shorten the name to Enron...
...logical solution to the problem of cold-weather baseball is to shorten the baseball season to 154 games...
...making such words pay their way. Sutoraiku, for example, is the kind of strike that a pitcher throws across the plate, while sutoraiki is the kind that workers go out on. It was inevitable that the Japanese would import "word processor" and just as inevitable that they would shorten it to wa-pro. Then the younger generation seized it and made it stand for "worst proportions," meaning an unattractive woman...
...makes no more sense than saying "Philosophy is 75% God." Are the good teams the ones that bear down in the crucial final innings? No. The Cardinals and Blue Jays would still have won their divisions last year if all games had ended after the fourth inning. Does AstroTurf shorten the careers of ballplayers? No. Pain and grumpiness are the usual by-products of attempting to simulate baseball on a surface of green concrete. In fact, players whose home parks use artificial turf have longer careers...
...last year's debut of the "place a runner on second base at the start of every extra inning" rule. In other words, starting in the eighth inning, the team at bat begins each frame with a bonus runner sitting on second--a plan designed to facilitate scoring and shorten lengthy deadlocks...