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...team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years - in a striking parallel to the then-booming Japanese economy - that Shoriki was talking up an eventual Real World Series with...
With a writers’ strike deadline looming at midnight Tuesday, America’s movie and television industries have been forced to confront the legitimate demands of screenwriters for a greater stake in the entertainment business. A different industry merits a new contract, and we support the members Writers’ Guild of America (WGA) in their demands for a fair share of revenues as well as additional credit and creative control. Though the industries have thus far expressed little willingness to compromise, in the interests of consumers and of the many others employed by Hollywood who will...
...agree with the demands of the WGA, we worry about the possible side effects of a strike. Thousands of people are employed by the entertainment industries—cameramen to costume designers, electricians and dolly grips—who would be severely hurt by a prolongued strike if a contract cannot be negotiated before tomorrow’s deadline. We are also concerned about what the studios might do in the event that their writers are gone; after all, there are only so many “Survivor” imitations we can stomach...
Though all dining hall workers in the union are already making more than the $10.25 an hour that PSLM is demanding for Harvard workers, the union's contract expires the day after Commencement, and negotiations are ongoing...
...Martin's Press recently renewed the Let's Go contract for another five years...