Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...league service. (Veterans can negotiate their own contracts as free agents, while young players must accept what their team pays them as long as it meets the minimum salary.) A baseball arbitrator must choose between the team's offer and the player's demand; he is not allowed to split the difference. What this has meant in practice over the years is that each time a spendthrift owner like George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees pays a no- hit, no-field free-agent shortstop $2.5 million, every journeyman infielder can successfully argue for the same salary in arbitration...
...internal politics of the owners gives new meaning to the term Balkanization. As author John Helyar puts it, "You have 28 different owners and 28 different economic interests, and no matter how united they say they are, they tend to split according to their economic interests." Clearly, some owners (Steinbrenner, Angelos) want to settle fast. The problem is that the owners, at Selig's behest, enacted a stop-me-before-I-buckle-again clause that requires 21 votes for an agreement after a player strike begins. Some theorize that Selig might lead a kamikaze band of less profitable owners...
...early May, Joe Scheidler, head of the Pro-Life Action League and hardly a moderate in antiabortion circles, sat down at Sauganash Pancake House in Chicago to reason with some colleagues. Over mushroom omelets and buttermilk pancakes, the little group revisited a topic that had split a larger meeting of antiabortion protest leaders the day before at a nearby hotel: Is the killing of abortion doctors "justifiable homicide"? Scheidler says he argued that it wasn't. What if a doctor was killed, he asked, just as he was on his way to tender his resignation -- to quit...
...Pentagon official dismissed the session as a "gentlemen's spat." But the divisions are real, split along lines that became all too familiar during the Reagan and Bush Administrations: a hawkish State Department urging military action and a cautious Pentagon holding out for more diplomacy. Not surprisingly, press reports of the should-we-or-shouldn't-we debate left Haiti's obdurate rulers more skeptical than ever that Clinton would force them...
Though such eruptions sometimes split parishes, Holy Trinity remains united, and three offshoot churches are thriving. The reaction of other pastors is benignly wary. "We are watchful," says the Rev. Richard Bewes, vicar at All Souls, an evangelical Anglican church in central London. "One doesn't want something to be blown up that then proves to be a letdown." No sign of that yet: lines outside Holy Trinity now start forming an hour and a half before services...