Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...way he's going to be in the lineup against Tiant when I got this little guy who hits his junk for about .420." The result is a wildly varying series of batting orders and, Weaver swears before each game, lineups certain to "hit this bum about four times out often." In the words of Rightfielder Singleton: "We call it going to the books, as in, 'He went to the books on you, and you get a day off.' " One additional advantage: no one languishes on the bench for too long...
...galloping home prices and the difficulties of finding mortgages and paying sky-high interest rates, demand remains strong. The availability of apartments, coops, condominiums and houses is tight, and there is no sign that the housing boom is about to bust. Meanwhile, the worsening shelter squeeze is changing the way America lives-for the worse...
...Brien: "He is a better negotiator than Walter [Reuther] and clearly a better negotiator than Leonard [Woodcock]. If Doug says this is the way it is going to be, you can put that in the bank...
There is some fear for the unions future after Fraser and other senior officers retire. A whole group of the committed, heads-busted-on-picket-lines generation has to be out by 1983. Fraser is the first to admit that the union could "go the way of all flesh." But he is convinced that "we are steeped in tradition and history that is apt to produce a certain kind of leadership." Surely tomorrow's auto union chiefs, whoever they are, will learn quite a bit from watching how Fraser handles the problem of asking for more in a lean...
...thus cleared the way for Pan Am and Texas International, each holding close to 25% of National's shares, to fight fairly freely for control of the airline in the marketplace. If Eastern later gets CAB permission to buy more than 25% of National's stock (it now holds just 100 or so shares), it also will become a serious bidder...