Word: strike
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports scene grew quiet after the World Cup as the threatened baseball strike became reality in late August and the remainder of the 1994 season was scuttled...
...then, the hockey season was back on track, the basketball season was in full swing, and by the middle of April the baseball strike was ended and the season began in earnest...
...June, the NHL crowned its champion of the strike-shortened season--the neutral-zone trapping New Jersey Devils, who even in the midst of celebrating their victory were plotting a move to Tennessee. Thankfully, the fair state of New Jersey prevailed on hockey's champions to remain in the Garden State--at least...
...Leuchtenburg of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill suggests that the 20th century Presidents with perhaps the highest IQs--Wilson, Hoover and Carter--also had the most trouble connecting with their constituents. Woodrow Wilson, he says, "was very high strung [and] arrogant; he was not willing to strike any middle ground. Herbert Hoover was so locked into certain ideas that you could never convince him otherwise. Jimmy Carter is probably the most puzzling of the three. He didn't have a deficiency of temperament; in fact, he was too temperate. There was an excessive rationalization about Carter...
...than anyone else before coming to Detroit, bringing the Big Red Machine to the World series four times, and winning it in 1975 and 1976. Anderson is the only manager to lead two teams in total wins. Anderson, who stepped out of the dugout during last spring's baseball strike, refusing to manage a team of strikebreakers, said at an emotional press conference in Detroit that he would wait 30 days to decide whether he will ever manage again. for additional articles about