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...Dave McNally, in effect ending the reserve system and clearing the way for the free agent system. On the day of Flood's death, that legacy was not lost on today's players. "Every major league baseball player owes Curt Flood a debt of gratitude that can never be repaid," pitchers David Cone and Tom Glavine, the current AL and NL player representatives, said in a statement. "With the odds overwhelmingly against him, he was willing to take a stand for what he knew was right." Flood's fight was not about greed but about rights, about raising the status...
...fund" is a myth. Every week's collection of Social Security payroll taxes first goes to pay benefits to today's retirees; then the surplus (currently about $565 billion) is immediately used to finance other federal spending. What goes into the "trust funds" is government ious that can be repaid only through some painful combination of spending cuts, tax hikes or further borrowing...
...Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge of the magnitude of such actions, in 1946 the Allies signed an agreement under which the Swiss handed over only about $60 million to be repaid to the looted countries...
While Kerry acknowledged paying below-market rent, he vehemently denied that he repaid the gift with political favors...
...basketball player Charles D. Smith; record producer Jheryl Busby; businessman Olden Lee; Black Entertainment Television chief Bob Johnson; and O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Each chipped in a minimum of $100,000. Because the film has been sold to Columbia Pictures for $3.6 million, their investment has already been repaid--with interest...