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Then in 1973 players won the right to submit salary disputes to an independent arbitrator. The arbitrator was compelled to choose either the club's offer or the player's demand, and salaries inevitably rose. True deliverance came two years later, when players won freedom from the so-called reserve clause that tied them to one team for as long as the owner wanted them. Now players with six years' experience could in a sense sell themselves to the highest bidder. The combination of arbitration and free agency sent salaries spiraling sevenfold in less than a decade, from an average...
Moments later, at the caucus meeting in Malacañang's ornate ceremonial reception salon, Marcos placed the same election bill before some 500 of his governing elite. "We must submit ourselves to a fresh mandate," he declared. One caucus member objected. Why not wait, he asked, until regularly scheduled presidential elections could take place in 1987? Replied Marcos: "This exercise is needed." The caucus promptly endorsed the election call and authorized Marcos to choose his running mate "in accordance with political traditions in democratic countries." The delegates also passed on the order for new elections to the 200-member National...
...OPPOSITION UNITY. The four major political parties will nominate their respective candidates and afterward will submit themselves to a larger [opposition] convention. Whatever the outcome, we will all abide...
...Paisley, the fiery head of the more militant Democratic Unionists. Normally fierce rivals, the two men joined forces to oppose the Anglo-Irish rapprochement. Jointly they protested, first by letter and then by visiting 10 Downing Street to make their case in person. They demanded that Thatcher submit any proposed agreement on Ulster to a referendum in the province, where loyalist Protestants outnumber the Catholic population by about...
...vice president will be chosen, since the position was left vacant after this weekend’s elections. In accordance with the BSA’s constitution, a simple majority of the executive board will decide the position. The candidate will then be required to “submit a position paper to the membership delineating his or her commitment to the principles of the BSA as well as his or her qualifications...