Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home at lunchtime. He was about seven or eight months old. He'd have a ball and a bat in his hands, standing there waiting for me when I came in the door." Out in the backyard, Joe served Joey as both center and receiver. He swayed the tire through which Joey flung the footballs. In those games, the natural child was never anything but the quarterback. No time was wasted punting the ball or running with it. When he was eight, to qualify him for midget football, they lied and said he was nine...
...adsmanship seems at first hoot almost suicidal for the networks: for every one of the games that is in play, one television set, to which it must be hooked, is unavailable to receive General Hospital, The Dukes of Hazzard, and much needed information about what kind of snow tire and no-qual beer to choose. Has the tube at last succeeded in strangling itself...
...depression in autos has been a severe blow to the rubber industry, and weakened the bargaining position of the United Rubber Workers union. Over the past two years, 18 tire plants have been closed and 25,000 jobs eliminated. Says Ralph Eifert, Firestone's vice president of employee relations: "We're in difficult times. We know it, and the unions know it too." The four major tire manufacturers (Goodyear, Firestone, B.F. Goodrich and Uniroyal) want to reduce paid holidays and other fringe benefits and cut back on cost of living adjustments...
...union objectives this year will be to win more jobs for members by getting preferential hiring rights at nonunion tire plants in the South. Says Union President Milan Stone: "We're concerned with employment for our people...
...Bruins, playing with only two offensive lines, started to tire as the third period began. And, "once we got the puck into their zone," Hurley said, "we really outplayed them." In particular, Hurley and her linemates Ward and center Tania Huber, outplayed them. Huber and Ward assisted on Hurley's second goal of the game, at 7:40. Hurley took a pass from Ward in front of the net and deked past Brown netminder Janice Moody to pull the Crimson even. That set the stage for Hurley's game-winner, also assisted by both her linemates, nine minutes later...