Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Free agency has featured its share of superstars--Steve Garvey, Reggie Jackson, Bob Boone, Pete Rose, Andre Dawson, Graig Nettles, Gary Carter. But it has also produced its share of duds--Steve Kemp, Dave Goltz, Rick Honeycutt, Jason Thompson...
...Bob Odear of High Point, N.C., traded down in life to be a full-time part of the birding world. Once the president and general manager of Wrangler jeans, Odear quit to make "one-third the money" running a birding company called Bob-O-Link and its phone service, the North American Rare Bird Alert. For $25 a year, subscribing birders are given a code name and the right to dial into a tape, changed as often as three times a day, listing the whereabouts of all known rarities in North America...
...phone service has cranked birding competition up a notch. Sandy Komito, 55, owner of a construction company in Haledon, N.J., blames Odear for turning him into a chaser. "Before Bob started the service in January of 1985, I was relatively passive," he says. Komito says he hunts rarities by tacking on a day or two of birding to a legitimate business trip. But when the ruddy ground dove was reported in Texas last November, he was there the next day, with no business trip as an excuse. He expects to fly 300,000 miles on birding trips this year...
There was disagreement among Republicans as well. When the New York Times last week polled 14 candidates asking how "hypothetical" contenders, pure and impure, should answer the A question, responses spanned the spectrum. Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said once a politician has declared for the presidency, he sacrifices his right of privacy. Congressman Jack Kemp, who has had to deny 20-year-old rumors of sexual misconduct, rejected the Times inquiry as "beneath the dignity of a presidential candidate." Vice President George Bush warned the press against "unseemly inquiries into private behavior." Pat Robertson, the other Baptist clergyman seeking...
Rabuka's takeover was slowly, if incredulously, accepted by Fijians, though some banks reported queues of people withdrawing money. Elsewhere the outcry against the coup was loud and clear. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand and Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia conferred by phone, then condemned the coup. Hawke called the events a "tragedy," and said he hoped that "parliamentary democracy can be restored." Both men were expected to exert diplomatic pressure on the regime. However, each ruled out military intervention. Washington, too, expressed concern at the overthrow of Bavadra...