Word: discarded
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...players' strike of 1987, which the owners crushed with all the sensitivity of Kentucky coal-mine operators. In ensuing labor agreements, the owners not only imposed a salary cap but also made most of the players indentured servants. In the NFL there are two positions: stars and parts. Teams discard broken parts, which is why the average playing career is just a couple of years, leaving behind hundreds of wrecked bodies. Once a player become less useful, his contract, like his bones, can be broken. (See TIME's top 10 sports comebacks...
After gathering feedback, the working group will decide by Oct. 7 which ideas to keep, discard, refine, or replace and will submit their final recommendations to Smith by mid-October...
...boxes and recyclables students discard during the move-in process are not simply loaded into a truck and sent to the dump to deteriorate alongside rusty cars and Styrofoam...
...save $52 for every ton we are able to recycle instead of discard as trash,” Gogan said. “So we do have to pay for it, but it is less than we would have paid to get it land-filled...
Margaret T. Burns, spokeswoman for the Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office, says viewing incidents like the one at the cookout as just gang violence is an easy way to package and discard the trouble. "It's so easy to calm everyone down and say these are two feuding gangs," she says. "Calling it a gang is a response that calms public fears but may not be necessarily accurate...