Word: strikingly
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...become a rite, and wrong, of summer. For the third time in 14 years, the baseball players' union has called for a midseason strike. This one, barring a lapse into common sense between players and club owners, begins Aug. 12. It could be brief, a blip in the sport's troubled labor history. Some think it will be brutal. As historian Bill James wrote recently, "We may be nearing the end of major league baseball...
...target near Sarajevo as punishment to the Bosnian Serbs for seizing weapons from a U.N. depot. At least one antitank gun was confirmed hit, the Pentagon said. Sixteen NATO planes executed the attack, at the request of the U.N. The Bosnian Serbs apparently learned their lesson after the NATO strike and agreed to return the weapons they took. The latest attack represents a tightening of the noose around the Bosnian Serbs, who have few friends left. According to TIME's Central Europe bureau chief James L. Graff, Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic today enforced a day-old border blockade by turning...
...baseball season was temporarily spared today when the players' union decided to continue negotiations. The threat of an immediate walk-out flared after it was disclosed that the owners failed to pay the $7.8 million due August 1 to the athletes' pension plan. With the August 12 strike date still in placed, many major leaguers feel that the owners are making no effort to settle the differences of the two sides, and in fact are tryng to provoke a cease-play. A national emergency? Probably not one that President Clinton would get involved in, he said last night during...
...retirement plan" was, in my opinion, disingenuous. Prior to my suggesting the 10-year payout plan, I had discussed with Phil Lima of the Benefits Administration the procedure followed in arriving at termination settlements. I specifically asked if multi-year payouts were permissible. His reply was that "FAS could strike any deal it wanted" and he went on to point out that negotiated settlements do not involve the use of restricted pension funds...
Take a walk through the Hall of Fame gallery, where the elect are commemorated with an all-American mixture of hoke and majesty. Guys try explaining to their wives some athletic epiphany in the career of a stranger. One swing of a bat, one sliding catch, a third strike from a half-century past can mist an old man's eyes. And just as a player can win a game by coming home, so the old teach baseball memory to the young. Last week a boy stared at a three-panel portrait of Mays, Mantle and Snider; the caption read...