Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Corporation yesterday voted to renovate Briggs Cage for use as a 3000-seat basketball facility and indoor practice field for baseball and lacrosse, Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, said yesterday...
...Brown's hometown of Santa Ana a "mellow afternoon." Charlie Santos-Buch and Mark Bingham each belted two hits and drove home two runs. Danny Bowles, a first-time starter for the Crimson, chipped in two singles and made a nifty grab of a would-be triple in left field...
Bowles' catch provided most of the excitement for the scattered bunch of relatives and friends in the stands. With two out in the eighth. Tim Garverick smashed a line drive over everyone to left-center field. Bowles turned his back and ran, dove with arms outstretched and tumbled to the ground ball-in-glove...
When the government decides to "encourage" an industry, as it did with steel in the 1950s, autos in the 1960s and television and computers in the 1970s, a mighty machine goes into action. The state-owned Japan Development Bank makes low-interest loans to manufacturers and suppliers in the field. Private bankers know that the government expects them, too, to give easy credits. Companies working on a new technology can get a 50% government subsidy, provided they turn over the basic patents to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. MITI then offers the technology, for a small royalty...
...early 1960s Maurizio Pollini of Milan, Italy, looked like the keyboard's most glamorous Cinderella since Van Cliburn of Kilgore, Texas, conquered Moscow. At 18, Pollini beat out a field of 78 to win the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. He was promptly whisked off to recording studios in London, and the result-an LP of the Chopin Concerto No. 1-brought critical raves on both sides of the Atlantic. Concert bookings were thrust upon...