Word: usher
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When the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series in 1919, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis barred the guilty players for life. This courageous decision helped usher in a new era of popularity and prosperity for baseball, as public confidence in the game was restored. The same courage is needed now to fight the players' unions, which are blocking random drug testing...
...courts were the league's last hope. In 1984 U.S.F.L. Commissioner Harry Usher and his owners had filed an antitrust suit. Though major-league baseball has been exempt from antitrust laws ever since a 1922 Supreme Court decision, other pro sports are not. Alleging that the N.F.L. had "willfully acquired and maintained a monopoly," the U.S.F.L. charged the older league with trying to drive it out of business, principally by leaning on the networks to withhold television contracts...
...including human insulin (1982), human growth hormone (1985) and alpha interferon (1986). The FDA approval of Recombivax HB is expected to give a big boost to the public image of an industry that has been more promising than profitable. Said Chiron President Edward Penhoet: "We think this vaccine will usher in a whole new generation of vaccines...
...year-old Edgar Krass succeeds Don Usher who retired at the end of the season after being head coach for five years. Before he went to Clemson in 1984, Krass coached at his alma mater, Central Florida, during the 1982-83 season, guiding the unranked men's tennis team to a sixth place ranking in division...
...With Usher as coach, the Crimson won the last three Ivy League Championships and also qualified for three consecutive NCAA berths...