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...labor leaders were starting a clock in a timeless place. One baseball season is a novel that develops into a chapter that dissolves into a sentence and ends up a phrase. A career can be that way too. Even an era. But anyway, a season is the minimum span of any meaningful attention to baseball...
...tumors in the most advanced part of the C range, the percentage drops to 40. Doctors placed the President's cancer in the middle of the Dukes B range, and Reagan's medical team declared that the President had a better-than-50% chance of living his normal life-span...
Scarcely a dozen years ago, in the short span of two months, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries arrogantly assaulted the industrialized world by quadrupling oil prices, to $11.65 per bbl. At a four-day meeting in Geneva last week, OPEC showed only a shadow of its former power. With the world awash in oil and consumption down, the once all-powerful OPEC cartel has an ever diminishing impact on global markets...
...editors, however, still treat the paper as a leprous intruder. "It's not our kind of journalism," says James Greenfield, an assistant managing editor of the New York Times. Observes Milwaukee Journal Editor Sig Gissler: "The paper tries to appeal to younger readers who might have a shorter attention span...
Hunt went the distance for Yale, holding the Crimson to five hits—none for extra bases—and two earned runs in her seven innings. Four of those knocks, however, came during a two-inning span over the fifth and sixth, during which Harvard got one run apiece and seemed to be honing in on a rattled Hunt...