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Most fans believe the threat to the game is purely economic: in no other corner of America is the dictum so widely held that money is the root of all evil. Richard Ravitch, the labor negotiator for the owners, loudly claims that 18 teams lost money last year. What is certain is that 300 of the 700 players on big-league rosters this season will earn more than $1 million each. Barry Bonds, the National League's Most Valuable Player, deserted the Pittsburgh Pirates in the off-season for greener pastures -- a record $43.75 million, six-year contract with...
...also this style that employees say is at the root of many of the department internal problems. These employees many of whom consider themselves friends of Johnson--way there is a lesson here. A lesson for the police, a lesson for Steiner, a lesson for the University, but, above all, a lesson for Johnson: Internal problems must be confronted head-on, even if it means making waves...
Then there are the scary subjects of baseball like fading team loyalty. I used to root for the hellish Mets just so we could meet them again in the World Series with a repentant Bill Bucknes at first. But, how can we have a crusade of revenge when Clemens and Mike Greenwell are the only remaining Red Sox and Darry! Strawberry plays for the Dodgers? Losing the Series because of an error was bad enough, but giving up the chance to make amends by leaving the Sox for more money was the ultimate fulfillment of the Curse...
Economics is also at the root of the Russian parliament's challenge to Yeltsin. For months, lawmakers have been trying to rein in his liberalized prices and his plans to privatize land and modernize industry. They say reforms that have produced painful side effects like 2,500% annual inflation, a 19% drop in gross domestic product last year and the threat of vastly increased unemployment are more than the Russian people can bear. Since December, the parliament, led by Khasbulatov, has been hacking away at Yeltsin's powers, determined to stall or divert the President's efforts to turn Russia...
...care, quite simply, a right. But managed competition, which Bill Clinton is on record as favoring, may more nearly resemble an amputation of the limited health rights most Americans already have. Even its boosters are expecting the public to warm to managed competition with the enthusiasm usually reserved for root-canal work...