Word: strikingly
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With spring training scheduled to begin this week, the 1995 baseball season remains in jeopardy. When a federal mediator and the President of the U.S. both struck out in their efforts to achieve a settlement of the six-month strike, the White House tossed the issue to Congress. But many lawmakers are reluctant to intervene in labor-management fights that do not involve national security. "We maintain our view that Congress is ill-suited to resolving private labor disputes," said a statement from House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole...
There is nothing new about this bit of pop philosophy for the masses. In striking a balance between what we want and what we can get, the ownership of ideals and a romantic vision is a sweet, intoxicating syrup that alternately sustains hope and steals it away. Few strike well the balance between foolish bliss and defeatism, between the tragic romantic and the resigned. Most of us swing back and forth between the two across different issues and different times...
What will it take to end the strike...
...strike started in the players' bankbooks, and there it will...
Sparky Anderson is taking himself out of the game. After the legendary Detroit Tigers manager refused to work with minor-league replacements during thebaseball strike, Tigers president John McHale placed Anderson on unpaid leave. Speaking from his clubhouse office today, Anderson said he's had it: "There ain't no place in our game for replacement players." Anderson promised he'll be back when -- or if -- the regular players return...