Word: spending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like Crash Davis, the aging catcher in the hit summer movie Bull Durham, most minor-league baseball players ache to make it to the big leagues but spend their careers taking bumpy bus rides between small-town ball parks. They are like writers who aspire to pen the Great American Novel but settle for scripting comic books: their lives are a compromise, an apology for what might have been...
...month for both Class A ball and the lowest level of professional baseball, the rookie league. The parent clubs buy equipment and pick up the tab for 75% of the meal and hotel bills when the farm teams are on the road. The expenses add up: most franchises spend between $3 million and $4 million on their minor-league affiliates. The majors pocket none of the profits, but they do get the opportunity to develop, say, a Mark McGwire or a Jose Canesco, both graduates of the Oakland A's farm system and winners of Rookie-of-the-Year honors...
While there is no lid on how much he can spend on his Senate campaign, federal law limits direct expenditures in the presidential campaign to the federal campaign funds--divided equally between the major party candidates...
...bicycle every day. "Second is the ((graduate school)) student body, skeptical and older than the politician was expecting, often with more academic training than he has." Dukakis loves to be challenged and found no problem there. "Then there are the classes themselves. Other politicians come in, spend the first sessions on the political lessons they have learned in a lifetime, and then wake up to the horrible realization that there are another 30 hours to fill. Michael prepared his syllabus ahead of time, knew his cases, had done all the readings." Pacing a course offered little challenge...
...couple spend weekends at their farm outside Middleburg in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and play power doubles at the annual Senate tournament at John Gardner's tennis ranch when they can get away, although Bentsen prefers singles. With the same understated courtesy he employs in the Senate, when a ball goes close to the line, he inquires with a small smile, "And how do you call the Senator's ball...