Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Major league ballplayers appear ready to walk Friday, despite a daylong emergency bargaining session. "I believe we are closer to a strike than we were 24 hours ago," said owner representative Richard Ravitch. At issue: the owners want a salary cap, the players don't. No new sessions are on the agenda. BTW: There have been eight baseball strikes in the past 22 seasons, including a 50-day run in 1981. Each time, the owners caved...
...green; his teeth grow as large as porcelain pillows. When he spots gorgeous Tina on a nightclub stage, his eyeballs pop like demented Slinkys, his anvil jaw drops onto the table, and his tongue cascades from his mouth; it's a red carpet for a red-hot princess to walk on. His heart thumps about a yard out of his chest. He lets howl a wolf whistle Jack Nicholson would envy and bashes himself with a huge mallet...
...action thriller of "Speed" or "True Lies," but is more of a "how the hell is he going to get himself out of this one?" sort of movie. While the film drags a bit at the end, and many different endings would have left viewers secure and happy walking out, the true purpose of the film is ultimately achieved. We walk away with a little more pride, a little more energy and the satisfaction that the right thing was done...
...chosen to make and Deric wants to prevent her from following. She knows that she will never recover. She has come to peace with that fact but has grown too weak to convince him of it also. Her one goal which becomes the title for the movie, is to walk down the aisle at her son's wedding. It is a tangible thing for her to reach for, one last sign of her love and care for her family...
...baseball season was temporarily spared today when the players' union decided to continue negotiations. The threat of an immediate walk-out flared after it was disclosed that the owners failed to pay the $7.8 million due August 1 to the athletes' pension plan. With the August 12 strike date still in placed, many major leaguers feel that the owners are making no effort to settle the differences of the two sides, and in fact are tryng to provoke a cease-play. A national emergency? Probably not one that President Clinton would get involved in, he said last night during...