Word: slips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mountain Landis, grandson of commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing with the proposed salary ceiling. The season resumed the following day. The players agreed to make up the games...
...attempts to remove a luncheonette and gift shop in New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns have ignited protests from the state's congressional delegation, though the contract has expired. Babbitt ventured up to Capitol Hill to tell Senator Pete Domenici his decision was final, only to watch Representative Joseph Skeen slip through an amendment in an appropriations bill, depriving the park service of the money to tear down the structure. Conservationists call such meddling "park barrel," alluding to the politicians' talent for stuffing budgets with pork for voters back home...
Driving into the parking lot, you might have guessed that you were at a Grateful Dead show were it not for the noticeably younger crowd. It's all too easy to slip into the cynical attitude that sneers "Who are all these drunk and stoned idiots and why are they ruining my band?" The fact of the matter is that at the smaller shows of yesteryear the idiot-factor was probably the same--proportionally there were probably just as many, but now it's 50% of 12,000 instead of 50% of 1,200. Furthermore, these shows are such...
...host several times to give orders to his aides, he listened as Pashin trotted out a list of ills afflicting the community. No problem was so large that Zhirinovsky wasn't ready with an instant solution. The district's atrocious road? "I'll see Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and slip these documents about the road to him." The lack of funds for new projects? "Everything is manageable." Wrangles over bureaucratic red tape? "I'll handle...
...mistake had been fleet, but no one knew how fatal it would be. It was a slip of the mind, a touch of the foot and, suddenly, instead of blocking the ball, Andres Escobar propelled it past his own team's goalie and into Colombia's net. The defensive error gave the U.S. soccer team a 1-0 lead, and eventually a surprise 2-1 victory at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on June 22. For Escobar and the heavily favored Colombians, it led to World Cup elimination and, in the early morning hours near Medellin last Saturday, murder...