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DIED. BOB LEMON, 79, unflappable Hall of Fame pitcher; in Long Beach, Calif. His sensational sinker catapulted the Cleveland Indians to victory in the 1948 World Series. A seven-time All-Star, Lemon signed a "lifetime contract" with the New York Yankees after managing them to a World Series...
Your portrayal of a piscatorial crisis is a real fish story. You swallowed hook, line and sinker the rhetoric of environmental groups. There is no question that some fish stocks are depressed, but more are stable and improving thanks to better science and management. World fish catches continue to grow, as does aquaculture, which now provides 25% of the global seafood supply. And your minuscule list of fish "O.K. to Eat" omits scores of products from well-managed, regulated fisheries, ranging from Alaskan salmon, halibut and pollock to New England lobster, scallops and yellowfin tuna. LEE J. WEDDIG, Executive Vice...
...fastball was working, and for the first time I used a sinker which I has been working on," Cicero said. "I got a lot of ground balls, and they hit them right at our fielders...
...says that she has sometimes been treated in a patronizing manner because of her religion. "People tend to think that because I am Catholic I buy hook, line and sinker everything the Pope ever said," says Teichert...
...those values are gone, chucked into the void with gulags and five-year plans, replaced by the potential-laden, but equally heartless, god of the Free Market. The leaders of the New Russia and its 14 Dwarves are showing an appalling willingness to adopt Western capitalism hook, line and sinker without much consideration of what it means...