Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wage scale idea would give the union collective power over the size of player contracts--something that used to be solely between each individual owner and player. And giving the players a slice of the television bonanza forces the owners to bargain with the networks on behalf of the union as well as themselves--providing a potential rationale for direct player participation in negotiations with the broadcasters...
...School has only one Black man and one white woman among its 65 tenured professors, it is hard to argue that minorities have taken more than their share of positions. But there is clearly a widespread fear that in a fixed pie of 65 tenured positions, the minority slice gets larger only by making other slices smaller...
While the 132-year-old Amex is mainly known for its credit cards, travelers checks and a worldwide network of travel agencies, those businesses now account for only about 35% of the company's profits, which totaled $518 million last year. The largest slice of earnings, nearly 40%, came from Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, the world's largest insurer of movie productions and the eighth biggest American property and liability underwriter. The brokerage business from its subsidiary Shearson contributed another 20% to earnings. Additional parts of the diversified corporate empire include Mitchell Beazley Ltd., the British...
...struggle for a slice of the low-cal market, Anheuser-Busch has not fared so well. The company's first two light beers, Natural Light and Michelob Light, have proved only moderately popular. Undeterred, the firm is spending some $50 million this year to launch yet a third reduced-calorie entry, Budweiser Light. Claims Anheuser-Busch President Dennis Long: "We are starting to see some chinks in Miller Lite's armor...
...helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Falkland Islands, although the game is most often played on West German real estate near the Iron Curtain...