Word: throwing
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...players will probably prevail, because they are blessed with the ultimate edge: the gift-from-the-gods talent to hit and throw a baseball better than anyone else in the world. No one in his right mind would spend a beautiful August Saturday in the bleachers at Wrigley Field cheering 27 men in suits -- plus the mercurial Marge Schott of the Cincinnati Reds -- as they bicker over revenue sharing. But put Ken Griffey or Barry Bonds or Frank Thomas in a Motel Six parking lot in North Dakota with a bat and ball, and fans will flock. Maybe Greg Maddux...
...cost controls on the insurance industry, and take employers off the hook of having to provide bill for coverage. But this morning, Congressional Budget Office Director Robert Reischauer said their numbers didn't add up. Chafee called the briefing "sobering," but added: "I certainly don't want to throw in the towel yet." TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson was less optimistic: "This could derail them...
...Adams: I'm very conscious of that. I know that once you start throwing the ball, your enemies will throw it right back at you. So we have the ball, we have possession, and we are going to run with...
...Gump seems a can't-miss proposition. Consider that the only three movies of the past two decades to win both the year's box-office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded man, family man, Vietnam hero and lots of decent folks on their deathbeds. The movie is not only a greatest-hits rendering...
...were supposed to have misplaced these virtues. The movie offers a cheerful alternative history -- a Golden Book version -- of the Vietnam War: it's all about the emotional triumphs of these nice American soldiers, and hardly a Vietnamese even appears. There are precious few villains: only the boys who throw rocks at young Gump, Jenny's sexually abusive father and the sds leader who slaps her around. Everyone else is either a celebrity or a victim...