Word: strike
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Lenny Dykstra, facing the loss of $31,000 a day if the strike carries into the season, recently suggested that the offer made by government mediator William Usery was acceptable and that the players' union should consider...
...strikes me as being ironically appropriate: the strike started by greed will find its end in greed...
...Valentine himself have anything to do with today's hearts-and-flowers business. According to Butler, contemporary customs derive from the popular notion that Valentine's Day is when birds choose their mates, to the accompaniment, one assumes, of an HRO serenade. Avian sex does not strike me as particularly romantic, to be perfectly honest, but who am I to judge...
Spring training starts tomorrow with replacement players pretending to be the real baseball teams, while the owners and players union engage in fantasies of their own. Testifying before a Senate subcommittee today, acting baseball commissioner Bud Selig admitted for the first time that the strike has hurt the teams financially. Though ticket sales and television and radio broadcasting rights for 1995 have plunged, Selig said the owners have no choice but to maintain their tough stance in negotiations. Many teams, he said, could not survive another season under the old contract. It remains to be seen how well they...
Three senior U.S. Senators today launched an attempt to end the six-month-old baseball strike with legislation that would partially repeal the sport's 73-year-old antitrust exemption. Players union head Donald Fehr lauded the bill, introduced by Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) and Bob Graham (D-Fla.). They want to let players mount court challenges -- as is done in other industries -- when owners unite to set labor restrictions. Congressional leaders, including House Speaker Newt Gingrich, are opposed to enacting legislation to solve the strike. Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole...