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...departure is the spectators' loss. In an era when less talented ballplayers pull down equally towering salaries and occasionally indulge in public temper tantrums, Jackson's grace and zeal on the playing field brought fans out in admiring droves. "When I'm playing, I'm relaxed," Jackson once said. "I'm like a fish in water." Fellow Royals star George Brett noted that fans fell out of the hot dog lines and hurried back to their seats when Jackson stepped to the plate. They were frequently gratified. In July 1988, he hit a blast off Boston's Oil Can Boyd...
...pretty good day for Sokolof too. For it marked the greatest victory yet in his remarkable crusade to improve the diet and protect the hearts of millions of Americans. Single-handedly, with messianic zeal, a keen public relations sense and some $3 million of his own money, Sokolof has persuaded many of the nation's largest food processors and fast-food chains to change both their ways and the ingredients of their products. In the process he has outraged corporate executives, given tropical oils a bad name and turned supermarket aisles into America's new libraries, clogged with shoppers reading...
Like several of his colleagues around the nation, Weld is bringing ideological zeal to his rescue plan. As a follower of supply-side economics, he shuns any new taxes, will not go to Wall Street to do more borrowing and wants to give businesses some tax relief. "I can't imagine a sharper break with the past," Weld said last week. Except for the chancellor of the board of regents, who resigned in protest, most of Weld's constituents so far seem to believe they deserve Weld's bitter medicine now that Massachusetts has an unemployment rate...
...bringing that news. Now the tension is reasserting itself." Argued conservative critic Dorothy Rabinowitz last week in a Wall Street Journal article: "The bill, it seems, has come in for the past 20 years," during which time, she claims, the press has gone overboard in post-Watergate prosecutorial zeal...
...economy. For that is how he viewed events -- and his perception rests at the heart of the present crisis. Battered by the war with Iran, $80 billion in debt, he expected gratitude from the likes of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for having spared them, as well as himself, the zeal of Khomeini's revolutionaries. He wanted higher oil prices; instead, production in the gulf went up, and his revenues went down. He wanted to lease islands for ports and loading berths on the gulf from Kuwait; no deal. All the while, Kuwait was slant-drilling oil out of a field...