Word: tanners
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Bypassing both the owners and the union chiefs, Ueberroth wrote to each athlete individually, in plain desperation. But the Players Association acted quickly to forestall him. A few of the enclosed ballots were immediately filled out, and whole teams opted for testing--Pittsburgh Manager Chuck Tanner made the Pirates vote. However, everyone eventually attached a rider requiring the accord of their union. It was not forthcoming. Acting Executive Director Donald Fehr called Ueberroth's appeal silly and suggested that the commissioner was out to make personal news, presumably to some political benefit. Ueberroth said that he was prompted...
...ruling affects some 15,500 employees of the state of Washington. Most of them are women who were eligible for comparable-worth salary hikes, plus back pay that could have amounted to $1 billion, under a 1983 decision by Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner in Tacoma. The latest decision may influence three pending comparable-worth cases in California and New York, involving approximately 96,000 workers. Opponents of comparable worth, which President Reagan once called "a cockamamie idea," were gleeful. "There isn't a single valid court opinion now upholding the concept," said William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General...
...that had found that state workers in job categories dominated by women were paid 20% less than those in male-dominated categories. Before the suit came to trial, the Washington legislature agreed to a plan that would gradually raise women's wages over the next ten years. Nonetheless, Judge Tanner ruled that it was time for pay equity "right now." He found that "the state of Washington has . . . a compensation system which discriminates on the basis of sex," and ordered the state to award back pay to all affected workers...
...Weldon Tanner, 43, an Atlanta businessman, has been stashing the old Coke in his pantry since April 23, the day Coke announced the change. He often consumes six bottles a day, though, and had reduced his inventory to ten cases by the end of last week. Tanner plans to head north, to small towns in North Carolina, to look for more. "I plan to work the boondocks," he says, "and I'm sure I'll find some there...
...basestealers...Kay had a couple of streaks broken over the weekend. After scoring a run in the team's first eight games, he failed to cross the plate in three of last weekend's league games. His hitting streak lasted a little longer, extending to 11 games before Drew Tanner held him hitless in three at-bats of the Navy nightcap...Mike Fiala, who beat Harvard in the Princeton nightcap, now has a 1.06 ERA. He has appeared in nine games and has three saves to go with his five wins. In 42 1/3 innings, he has struck...