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what the owners have proposed is that they put 48 % of selected revenues -- about 38 % of total revenues -- into a salary pot .


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using statistics to determine salaries always has been tricky business and no less than the guru of the 20th century baseball statistic , bill james , has said that no formula can be devised to determine fair salaries .


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general managers have a laundry list of horrors about arbitrators who do n't know what a batting average is or who decide that if george steinbrenner paid player x $ 800 million , then player y ought to get that money too .


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first , they want an end to salary arbitration .


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the owners ' player relations committee has also instructed clubs not to let players use their facilities to stay in shape , which means players will be shuffled off to haphazard drills at high school fields .


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baseball players who filed for arbitration had an average salary increase of $ 348,269 this year , according to an associated press survey .


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the 159 players whose teams agreed to arbitration had an average salary of $ 422,735 in 1989 .


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using an alternate method of calculation -- average annual values -- the increase was even sharper : 102 % , the biggest rise since 1981 .


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according to statistical comparisons with recent years , the average salary should rise to between $ 590,000 and $ 620,000 in 1990 .


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their average jumped 158 % , from $ 192,957 to $ 497,178 .


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figures for the ap survey were obtained over the past two months from numerous player and management sources .


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the study showed that the kansas city royals had the highest payroll in baseball , $ 23,617 , 090 .


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the 1990 baseball free-agent auction is nearly over , a hyperactive exercise in free enterprise .


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in one 30-day stretch between november and december , 29 players were signed to contracts totaling $ 209 million , at an annual average salary of $ 2.4 million for an average of three years .


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if ownership 's apparent desire to mug itself so willingly leads fans to assume that surely the money must be there , there is another way to look at baseball 's increasingly bizarre balance sheet : what if a team went broke trying to pay the free-agent freight ?


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sure , baseball attendance keeps breaking records .


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but with so much money being spent so freely , the idea that one day a ballclub 's salary expenses may so exceed its revenues that it could go broke is not out of reason 's realm .


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`` but knowing -lrb- baseball 's -rrb- history , it might have to come to it .


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`` but you know , i do n't even know if a bankruptcy would stop the salary spiral . ''


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so profoundly does kauffman want to win that he does what other fabulously well-to-do owners wo n't : he subsidizes player signings with his own cash .


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we do n't pass higher salary costs on to the fans .


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both players and owners are looking toward a newly named joint economic study committee to sort out the future of player compensation .


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any type of revenue-sharing -- modeled partly on the nba 's revenue-sharing and salary cap system -- must mediate the disparities in local tv-and-radio income between the rich and poor clubs .


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maybe he can find a way to solve baseball 's salary inflation in the 1990s .


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st. louis pitcher joe magrane compiles a 10-17 record , and his salary goes from $ 300,000 to $ 1 million , even though magrane wo n't be able to play this season .


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boston 's roger clemens signs for 50 percent more than the salary of the a 's dave stewart , who had been the top-paid pitcher .


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dal maxvill of st. louis calls it a `` big flashing beacon , '' and baseball is not ignoring it .


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management and union agreed on a blue-ribbon study group that includes former federal reserve board chairman paul volcker , rockefeller foundation chairman peter goldmark of the rockefeller foundation , cal law professor david feller , henry aaron -lrb- not the hall-of-fame player -rrb- of the brookings institution , milwaukee brewers owner bud selig and donald fehr , head of the players association . ;


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`` the group will look at the economics of baseball in its broadest sense and make recommendations and findings .


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dave anderson , the giants ' co- player representative and a four-year rep while with los angeles , said players do not see the storm clouds that the general managers speak about. ;


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`` our whole complaint -lrb- during last year 's labor standoff -rrb- was that there was no telltale sign of problems in baseball , '' he said .


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there 's no question that this is a good time to play baseball . '' ;


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so why did gorman make clemens , a player who performs only every fifth day , the richest player in the game ?


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whether we go through some sort of statistical level that compensates a player for stats , or whether it 's a -lrb- salary -rrb- cap that a player reaches and tops off and does n't have to worry about it anymore , i 'm confident baseball will solve its problems. '' ;


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fred claire said he hopes all parties in baseball will recognize that `` we 're just passing through .


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john schuerholz said agents tell him privately `` how wacky this baseball salary business is. '' ;


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`` why would a player want to give up what he 's got ? '' he asked .


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no one can predict what the descent will be in baseball .


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cbs has already asked baseball to pay back $ 200 million . '' ;


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in the meantime , baseball will begin again monday , including the traditional opener at cincinnati 's riverfront stadium .


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in previous years , no individual team 's average salary ever reached this year 's major league average salary .


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the record for a team average was set by the new york mets in 1989 at $ 865,741 . ; the a 's , with a record $ 36.4 million payroll and 14 of their 27 players receiving $ 1 million or more , have the highest team average , $ 1,349 , 352 . ;


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the giants rose from 12th to sixth on the list at $ 1,117 , 619 . ; the houston astros are at the other end of the salary standings with an average of $ 487,090 . ;


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the overall increase is dramatic even by baseball 's standards .


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`` obviously , we think this is a problem , '' said chuck o'conner , the head of the owners ' player relations committee .


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if all this makes you think baseball players are paid too much , you are n't alone. ;


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according to last week 's new york times/cbs news poll , those surveyed said by more than a three-to-one margin -lrb- 71 percent to 19 percent -rrb- that the typical player is paid too much rather than just the right amount. ;


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only 1 percent thought the typical player is paid too little .


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4 . according to a new study , who faces more risk from heart disease , women who have full personal and professional lives or women who are unmarried , have no children or do not work outside the home ? ;


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true or false , according to the latest gallup poll , a majority of americans now believe the united states should have continued fighting until saddam hussein was removed from power. ; 9 . what is the average salary of major league baseball players , $ 200,000 , $ 500,000 or $ 1 million ? ; 10 .


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a bright high-school senior , for example , might find it useful to know that of 12 occupations that pay a median weekly salary of more than $ 600 a week , five of them , accounting for nearly half the jobs , are engineers of one kind or another .


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but that 's chicken feed if you can throw a baseball .


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may be more useful than the median salary data to would-be accountants or dentists .


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on aug. 31 , an arbitrator will hand down a ruling that could eventually tilt the economic balance of power in baseball and other professional team sports .


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arbitrator thomas roberts will decide whether the owners of the 26 major league baseball teams conspired after the 1985 season to prevent players from marketing their services freely , in violation of the collective bargaining agreement that governs the sport 's labor relations .


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after 32 hearing days spread over the past year and 6,000 pages of testimony , many in professional sports are anxiously awaiting the ruling .


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the alleged conspiracy , the union and agents claim , has been led by peter ueberroth , the economy-minded commissioner who came to baseball in 1984 after transforming the olympic games from a big money loser into a model of sports marketing .


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all 26 decided that player contracts beyond three years were counterproductive .


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what about reports prepared by the owners ' player relations council that purported to show that the big-bucks , long-term contracts that came with the free-agent frenzy led to poor performance and wasted money ?


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barry rona , executive director of the player relations council , says owners have every right to decide against bidding for costly free agents and to discuss issues of mutual economic interest .


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having started in 1974 , he remains baseball 's most senior salary arbitrator .


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if players prevail , baseball insiders and legal specialists expect mr. roberts to order salary arbitration to determine how much the affected players were damaged by the collusion .


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mr. rona says mr. roberts could prohibit the player relations council from disclosing details of one team 's offer to another team .


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if the owners win , it `` would force a player to stay with his old team on their terms -- a shorter contract with less money , '' says mr. hendricks , the agent .


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`` once they do that , they 'll attack us on salary arbitration next . ''


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moreover , the union 's humbling defeat at the hands of a unified management playing labor hardball may also foreshadow tougher days ahead for the players ' counterparts in basketball and baseball .


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and the football players ' defeat raises a troubling question for all player unions : how committed will professional athletes actually be when the going gets tough ?


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by contrast , the union was plagued throughout by widespread reports of deep divisions among its staff , player representatives and members .


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did the nba union opt for the courtroom because its members , whose average pay tops $ 500,000 a year , would n't stand still for a strike over free agency ?


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both basketball and baseball , for instance , have organized minor leagues already operating .


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if nfl owners , through replacement teams , have devised a strike defense , that would be especially bad news for the baseball union , which has used the strike effectively in the past .


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the arbitrator 's remedy is n't expected until early next year , but baseball sources think he will encourage both sides to settle the issue themselves .


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baseball sources expect extremely tough negotiations .


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the other major sports have n't had meaningful free agency ; baseball has .


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bonds , winner of the league 's most-valuable- player award last year , distinguished himself in the off-season by being awarded a 1991 salary of $ 2.4 million while losing an arbitration battle with the team .


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that is the curious thing about fan reaction to the salary boom : the more they moan , the more they go to the ballpark .


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as was reported in this newspaper monday , every year it costs more to attend a game than it did the year before ; team marketing report , a sports newsletter , put this season 's day -at-the-park tab for a typical family of four at $ 76.22 , up 9 % from 1990 -lrb- although i thought the kids might have done without those two , $ 7.85 baseball caps -rrb- .


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and , indeed , last year , when player salaries also were too high , the pirates drew a record 2,049 , 908 people , and reserved-seat price increases of $ 1 or 50-cents here this year did n't halt a boost in season -ticket sales to 15,000 from 11,000 , which alone works out to about 320,000 more fannies in the seats seasonlong .


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it is also american to sit in a ballpark on a sunny day watching the geometrically perfect game of baseball , '' declared pirate fan bill gerstner , an oil -company purchasing agent from butler .


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what 's worse , the man before them , commissioner peter ueberroth , was making these business titans feel like naughty schoolboys .


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the qualities that made them rich enough to own a baseball team deserted them once they 'd bought one .


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now he was having labor-relations chief lee macphail deliver the latest bad news : baseball owed a whopping $ 40 million to released , retired players .


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the next afternoon , player agent tom reich looked forward to meeting with bill lajoie , the detroit tigers ' general manager .


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it froze the free-agent market and arrested baseball 's salary spiral .


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baseball went from tattered finances to unprecedented prosperity .


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but , in the end , it crashed in on the owners , with $ 280 million in damages , the fundamental business problems of baseball unsolved and salaries more out of control than ever : average player pay has risen 50 % in just the past year .


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what 's more , he says , `` i do n't think the owners are capable of colluding .


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the foundation for the following account lies in the record developed in three collusion cases , together with the memories of baseball owners , executives , agents and players .


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collusion was less a deep , dark price-fixing conspiracy than a harnessing of baseball 's normal herd instincts .


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it was an emotional reaction to an explosive , revolutionary decade in baseball .


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but in many ways it had , in a phrase often used by baseball people , `` a life of its own . ''


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from 1976 to 1985 , the average salary rose 700 % , to $ 369,000 .


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baseball teams ' front offices , holdovers from sleepier times , were hopelessly outgunned by sharp player agents .


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in impotent despair , baseball piled up a $ 277 million operating loss from 1980 to 1984 .


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at one meeting , soon after taking office , mr. ueberroth announced he 'd figured out what was wrong with the economics of baseball .


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in baseball , you 'll make a $ 5 million player decision and you 'll say , `that 's not me ; that 's my general manager . ' ''


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`` if you had a friend and you really liked the way his secretary took shorthand , would you double her salary to take her away ? '' he asked .


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abc and nbc were losing money on their baseball broadcasts , which fed the teams $ 1 billion over six years .


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among his highlights : players with three-year contracts and up spent nearly 50 % more time on the disabled list than those with one-year contracts ; and the average player 's batting average declined nearly 20 points after he had signed a contract of three years or more .


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and two weeks after that , baseball 's general managers gathered in tarpon springs , fla. , for their annual post- series meeting .


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if he did n't re-sign with the tigers by jan. 8 , under baseball 's rules , he could n't sign with them until may 1 .


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if he got offers from no one else -- and the silence was deafening -- he 'd be out of baseball .


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the free agents averaged just a 5 % salary increase .


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as they came into the quarterly meetings , the owners would be handed binders of salary data , organized team by team and detailing total payrolls , deferred pay , money owed released players and other data .


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as owners discussed their teams , they would say whether they wanted to re-sign a player who was up for free- agency .


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mr. ueberroth periodically turned to baseball 's lawyers , during meetings , and told them to stop him if he was getting onto collusion grounds .


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player relations committee director barry rona actively urged some owners to get out there and make bids .


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but baseball 's legal battery is now criticized by some owners , and some lawyers familiar with events , for largely letting events roll along .


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and , as hearings began that summer , they were frustrated at the amnesia of baseball executives .


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says one baseball executive : `` the hardest part in the beginning was the mistrust , '' suspecting someone would break ranks with a big signing .


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team president john mchale invoked the name of a player who 15 years earlier legally challenged the reserve system and wound up exiled from baseball .


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instead of being treated like the best pitcher in baseball , as he arguably was , the 21 -game winner got replies as if he were a classified-ad applicant .


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mr. rona of the player relations committee had suggested they respond to inquiries from free-agent players by saying either : 1 -rrb- not interested because of anticipated economics , 2 -rrb- not interested due to club policy on free agents , or 3 -rrb- make us an offer , to which we can say yes or no .


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to a remarkable degree , baseball men had now internalized the ueberroth message .


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when new atlanta braves president stan kasten attended his first baseball meetings , in december 1986 , he was startled .


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`` in baseball , all anybody wanted to talk about was salaries and money , '' he recalls .


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`` before you ever talked about a player 's skills you asked , `what 's his contract like ? ' ''


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if an owner made comments mr. ueberroth found not `` in the best interests '' of baseball , he was fined .


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so was mr. ueberroth 's cash-disbursal method from baseball 's `` central fund , '' the repository of revenue distributed to all teams .


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if they took their chances on the market , they took their baseball lives in their hands .


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baseball eked out its first pretax operating profit in eight years in 1986 .


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the following year , with revenues up 15 % and the average player 's salary down 2 % , operating profit grew nearly tenfold , to $ 103 million .


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even when one of the eight got offers , baseball 's peer-pressure system could be seen at work .


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but , he insisted , `` this is n't collusion ; it 's just the owners finally understanding what 's happening . ''


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but mr. moss went through months of futile approaches to cubs general manager dallas green , who kept demurring he could n't sign another high-priced player .


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but a few days later , the cubs did fill in the blank : $ 500,000 salary plus $ 200,000 in incentives .


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yet mr. green was less elated than defensive , writing apologetically to the player relations committee and the league presidents , `` i was not quite as prepared to respond or handle this type of proposal as i probably should have been . ''


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he laced into the player about how he 'd let down the fans ; how he 'd been greedy ; how he 'd been a dupe for the union .


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the unraveling and the explosion the average salary of that year 's free agents declined 16 % .


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the player relations committee 's new lawyer , charles o'connor , told mr. ueberroth to stop the payroll-review drills .


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baseball 's revenues hit $ 1 billion in 1988 , its operating profit $ 121 million .


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late that year , mr. ueberroth negotiated four-year , $ 1.4 billion deals with cbs and espn that doubled baseball 's tv money .


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salaries more than doubled from 1988 to 1991 , reaching an average of $ 890,000 .


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one team , the oakland athletics , has a bigger payroll than all of baseball had in 1976 .


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still another , some say , is a prc -imposed code -- baseball 's version of post-watergate morality -- in which general managers ca n't discuss player signings at all .


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cbs chairman laurence a. tisch admits he overpaid for baseball , and the network has already written off $ 170 million in losses .


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when its $ 1 billion contract is up , after 1993 , baseball 's tv money could go down .


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`` baseball , '' says phillies president bill giles , `` is right back where it started from . ''


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did the nba union opt for the courtroom because its members , whose average pay tops $ 500,000 a year , would n't stand still for a strike over free agency ?


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if nfl owners , through replacement teams , have devised a strike defense , that would be especially bad news for the baseball union , which has used the strike effectively in the past .


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`` i think what is happening is really insulting to the voters of wisconsin , '' said garvey , who led the nfl players out on strike 1982 .


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in 1987 , nfl players went on strike , mainly over the issue of free agency .


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the nfl management council , which devised the plan , is optimistic it can convince judge david doty , who is presiding in the antitrust suit filed by the union after the 1987 strike , that there is freedom of movement for players .


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the system is an outgrowth of that 24-day 1987 strike , which ended with an antitrust suit filed by the nfl players assn. , asking the courts to grant it the free agency it could n't get on the picket line .


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but cba stands for collective bargaining agreement , which the nfl and its players have been without since the strike of 1987 .


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former university of tennessee quarterback tony robinson , who also was a replacement player for the washington redskins during the nfl players ' strike in 1987 , was arrested on a fugitive warrant for parole violation by fairfax county , va. , police .


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fact : throwing out the strike year of 1982 -lrb- when the size of the playoff field doubled -rrb- , every nfl team except the packers and the cardinals played a postseason game in the 1980s .


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carney kicked for notre dame before being signed as a replacement player by tampa bay during the nfl 's 1987 strike .


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older brothers kyle and cary played linebacker for byu , and both played for the rams as replacements during the nfl strike in 1987 .


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i remember the seven-week 1982 nfl strike fondly , as a time for sunday puttering and family fun .


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the five-year collective bargaining agreement that settled the 57-day 1982 strike expired aug. 31 , leaving the nfl players without a contract .


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during the 1982 strike , they bought far fewer souvenir items , a small , but growing source of nfl revenue .


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a spokesman for nbc says that , so far , the network has only ruled out picking up games from the canadian football league , which nbc did during the 1982 players ' strike .


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in 1982 , the nfl cut its rights fees by $ 110 million because of the players ' strike .


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they note that after the 1982 strike , viewing levels for football did n't recover to 1981 levels for several seasons , a reduction they attribute in part to fan and audience backlash over the strike .


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reginald brack jr. , president and chief executive of time inc. 's magazine division , notes that during the last nfl strike , in 1982 , some nfl advertisers stepped up spending in time publications ; he expects the same effect again , with time , sports illustrated and people possibly receiving small boosts .


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baseball bounced back from its 1981 strike to set attendance records , and the fact that the nfl gate has n't quite recovered from the 57-day players ' walkout of 1982 -- the only one that disrupted regular-season play -- probably has as much to do with high ticket prices and full stadiums in many cities as fan disaffection .


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nfl officials say it took the league three years to win back fans after the 1982 strike .


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in 1970 , 20 years ago , `` nfl monday night football '' made its debut on abc tv as the cleveland browns defeated the visiting new york jets , 31-to-21 .


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the nfl management council has had preliminary talks with the dormant players ' union about instituting a salary cap as the two sides try to solve a 2 1/2-year impasse .


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but he said the incentive to get to the bargaining table with the union , which says it 's decertified , should be the nfl 's new television contract , for $ 3.64 billion over four years .


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agnone is now an agent for a stable of nfl players .


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the agent said that the nfl needs a cba .


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-lrb- the yankees , packers and celtics reigned together from the time of the packers ' second straight nfl title in december , 1962 , until the yankees ' loss to the dodgers in the 1963 world series . -rrb-


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opinion : jerry glanville may be a loudmouthed punk , but at least he is an original personality in the homogenous nfl .


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opinion : at less than three hours , nfl games are almost start-to-finish watchable again .


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opinion : the chiefs , jets and falcons are nfl teams headed in the right direction .


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opinion : the bills , browns and saints are nfl teams headed in the wrong direction .


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fact : television audiences for the biggest college bowl games are roughly the same size as audiences for most regular-season nfl games .


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tagliabue was the loser in the suit brought by the los angeles coliseum commission against the nfl for antitrust violations .


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the suit cost the nfl $ 10 million in legal fees .


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technically , he was the loser in the suit brought by the united states football league against the nfl .


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that defense cost the nfl $ 26 million in legal fees and greatly enhanced tagliabue 's reputation among the league 's owners .


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and he was the loser in the raiders ' antitrust suit against the nfl for trying to stop the team 's move to los angeles from oakland .


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the nfl had to pay $ 20 million in damages .


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the announcement of his selection as nfl commissioner was met with equal enthusiasm by his courtroom opponents and supporters .


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`` he 's a fine gentleman and a scholarly lawyer , and unlike his predecessor he may pay some attention to antitrust laws , '' said max blecher , an attorney who represented the coliseum commission against the nfl .


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`` he 's an outstanding lawyer and certainly has a complete understanding of how the league functions , knows all the owners and i 'm sure many of the players , '' pregerson said , while admitting that he has never seen an nfl game in person or on television .


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peter k. leisure , the u.s. district judge who heard the usfl - nfl trial , was also impressed with tagliabue .


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antitrust legislation is at the heart of the nfl problems .


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the nfl has long sought an exemption similar to the one granted major league baseball .


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tagliabue also represented the nfl in the suit filed by the national football league players assn .


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`` i want to congratulate paul tagliabue on his selection as nfl commissioner and i look forward to working with him , '' upshaw said in a statement .


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oiler quarterback warren moon passed for more than 300 yards for the 21st time in his regular-season nfl career .


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stanley morgan of indianapolis recorded his ninth reception of the season in the third quarter , moving past lance alworth into 13th place on the nfl all-time list with 542 catches .


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the nfl ruled that all streaks for consecutive games were broken by players who sat out the strike .


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green caught five passes for 89 yards and has 8,002 yards in his 12-year nfl career .


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although he was n't able to play for el modena again , he did play in college .


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he did play a month and a half later when el modena defeated foothill , 10-7 , in a southern section championship game at anaheim stadium .


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but he did get hit in practice , harder than he was hit in high school .


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the strike ended without a new contract between the players and the league 's 28 team owners .


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if the original team declines to match the offer , the player 's new team must compensate the other team with draft choices. ; dick macpherson , the coach at syracuse the past 10 seasons and a former nfl assistant , was named today as coach of the new england patriots , the league 's worst team . ;


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an nfl source said the league expects to appeal. ; management `` illegally discriminated against the strikers `` in violation of the national labor relations act , said the law judge 's 108 -page decision .


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the nfl clubs can appeal to the five -member nlrb or try to work out a settlement with the players . ;


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young was a junior at brigham young university , and bono was a sophomore at ucla . ; -lrb- box -rrb- they did have joe montana , who is the only player left from that team on the current 49ers . ;


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i say that because the level of public bombast between the sides has been low , and because the players would have arranged a july 31 strike deadline if they seriously contemplated walking out .


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the pair takes some credit for the fact that that strike lasted just two days .


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i think our mere presence did some good . ''


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he opines that while a football strike might score lower on the cosmic scale than one by , say , garbage collectors , the customer still has a right to be heard .


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the national football league 's labor contract expires tonight , amid speculation that the players ' union will set a strike deadline .


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mark murphy , assistant executive director of the union , says a strike deadline will be discussed .


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until recently , the union had n't brandished the strike threat .


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so the saber-rattling talk of a strike and a possible antitrust suit has intensified .


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a more likely date , predicts jack donlan , executive director of the nfl management council , the owners ' bargaining unit , would be sept. 30 , three weeks into the season .


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but a strike could be more devastating to the league 's owners than its players because the nfl appears poised for a revival after several years of litigation , labor strife and slumping television ratings .


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and without baseball 's antitrust exemption , the nfl would face a treble-damages antitrust suit , mr. donlan warns .


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the national football league 's players ' union , saying its members `` will not accept the servitude '' demanded by management , set a sept. 22 strike deadline yesterday with both sides far apart in talks for a new contract .


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the strike deadline , approved 24 -4 by the union 's board of player representatives , would come after the second game of the season .


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`` management really left us no choice but to set a strike date , '' gene upshaw , executive director of the nfl players association said at a news conference .


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nfl commissioner pete rozelle acknowledged earlier yesterday that the parties were `` beyond the 11th hour `` and said he would be willing to join the talks to facilitate a settlement .


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rather , the games now getting under way are those between the players and team owners in their contract talks , and those among the nfl , the television networks and the big advertisers who grease the whole television machine .


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the brunt of that financial burden will ultimately fall on the nfl .


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major financial pressure to settle the strike will come from the three major television networks and espn inc. , a sports cable programming service .


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the strike is n't expected to seriously hurt short-term network profits , however .


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but as the strike deadline approached and passed , even gene upshaw , executive director of the nfl players association , found himself talking more and more about free agency and less about everything else .


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and jack donlan , executive director of the nfl management council , said that everything currently on the table is negotiable -- except free agency .


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unlike their baseball brethren , however , the nfl owners do n't enjoy total antitrust exemption , and would thus face an antitrust suit and the possibility of paying treble damages .


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ironically , the strike was announced the same day as an arbitrator 's finding that baseball owners violated their labor agreement with players by conspiring to close down the free-agent market .


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later that day , the nfl management council issued a statement that said , in part : `` today 's decision by a baseball arbitrator strengthens our commitment to a settlement without the unrestricted free agency demanded by the players association . ''


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nfl owners insist that the league 's schedule will be suspended for one week and then resume with teams staffed by previously cut free agents and other assorted couch potatoes -- including , owners hope , some current stars who have threatened to cross the picket line .


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most will also offer refunds to luxury-box holders , who represent the largest chunk of unshared revenue in the largely socialistic nfl .


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the new england patriots , plagued by heavy losses and debt and on the auction block for more than a year , know that a long strike `` will obviously hurt them financially , '' says a team spokesman .


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but the strike could cost each team a big chunk of the $ 1.9 million it takes in each week from national television money , gate receipts , luxury boxes , parking and concessions and local radio outlets .


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james steiner , an agent for players , does n't think that will happen unless the strike `` becomes a long , embroiled situation and gets ugly with strikebreaker games and players fighting among themselves . ''


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one rumor -- staunchly denied by all concerned -- is that the chicago bears gave the union a week to settle the strike before walking back in .


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thomas shine , president of logo 7 inc. , a large nfl licensee , estimates that the last strike cost his company $ 2 million .


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nfl officials say the networks must carry the games if they are offered , but some network officials say their commitment to carry such games is unclear .


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meanwhile , cbs says it is considering college football games , professional golf , boxing matches and sports anthology shows as possible long-term substitutes for nfl games .


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with recent sales of sports advertising time rebounding from stagnant levels of the past two years , network officials report that most commercial time for nfl games is sold out .


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under the networks ' new contract with the nfl , the league must reduce the amount of the broadcast rights fees the networks pay them by the estimated loss of advertising revenue .


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battling over the free-agent issue the nfl players association has proposed that any player , after four years of service and regardless of salary , may become a free agent and sell his services to the highest bidder .


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by contrast , nfl owners propose that players become eligible for free agency after two years -lrb- as it was in the last agreement -rrb- but that teams would still receive some compensation for losing players under a complicated formula .


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in addition , the nfl strike , while perhaps cutting tv network revenue slightly , could help some general-interest and sports publications .


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the magazines themselves are n't wasting any time : sports illustrated yesterday morning telexed nfl network advertisers to say it will accept color ads a week in advance of publication instead of the usual six to seven weeks .


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but ad executives do n't expect the strike to affect overall spending levels .


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`` if advertising shoots up after the nfl strike is settled , '' says mr. brack , `` i certainly would n't look back and finger the strike as a turning point . ''


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while we are out sailing , though , we might ponder what the strike is all about , and what it says about the games we love .


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to hear both the national football league players and owners tell it , the strike is about free agency , or the ability of players to perform for teams of their own choosing .


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by most judgments they are 0-5 in their tilts with the owners , and it was mainly the bidding war with the short-lived u.s. football league , not the fruits of labor negotiations , that boosted the average annual salary in the nfl to about $ 200,000 from $ 90,000 in '82 .


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by any rational standard , the football strike should be among the least of our concerns , and the usual radio-talk-show rantings should n't obscure joe fan 's short memory .


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the sole nfl player to change teams via free agency was defensive back norm thompson , who moved from st. louis to baltimore in 1977 .


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after all , the 24-day walkout that added some new terms to the national football league 's lexicon -- most notably `` replacement teams `` -- did indeed end late last week , when players returned to camp without a labor contract , without any bargaining gains and without much pride .


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legal specialists , for instance , do n't expect the nfl union to prevail in its lawsuit -- and believe the suit will make it tougher for the national basketball association 's players ' union to win a similar lawsuit it has filed .


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the nfl union 's retreat also raises the risks for sports players that management will continue to effectively use replacement teams to quash strikes .


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the big loser for now , though , is the nfl players association -- whose members lost more than $ 80 million in pay during the strike -- and its chief , former all- pro tackle gene upshaw .


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gary roberts , a tulane university law professor and an authority on sports-labor law , also criticizes union leadership for failing to provide for its players financially , either through a strike fund , a line of credit or by delaying the strike so players could collect more pay .


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attendance and ratings did fall , but not as much as the union had hoped , and the networks continued to subsidize the substitute games -lrb- although network sources estimate that more than half the rights fees for the past three weeks of replacement games will eventually be refunded by the owners -rrb- .


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the nfl management council 's sevenmember executive committee also kept a tight rein on its members , says leigh steinberg , a sports attorney and agent , `` which enables management to speak with one voice that tends to be constituted of some of the toughest and shrewdest negotiators they have . ''


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they say that the courts have generally ruled that the issues involved in the nfl labor impasse are subjects for the collective-bargaining process and are thus exempt from the antitrust laws .


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the nfl 's suit , for instance , may hurt a similar suit filed in new york federal court earlier this month by the nba players ' union .


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its suit , sports-law specialists say , contains the same inherent weakness as the nfl suit -- that is , it focuses on issues normally reserved for the collective-bargaining process .


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now , he adds , the nfl 's failed strike underscores for the courts that this is a collective-bargaining issue .


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`` the way the nfl 's suit was filed , coming at the end of a disastrous strike , is going to weaken the nba 's efforts to win its suit , '' mr. roberts says .


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for one thing , the nfl strike is a clear sign that players are losing their taste for the picket lines .


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the nfl 's successful use of replacement games to break the strike also could prove to be a role model for other sports .


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but will baseball players , who make more than $ 400,000 annually on average , be any more likely to strike over free agency than basketball and football players ?


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and consider this latest tidbit , from sidney shlenker , owner of the nba 's denver nuggets : during the nfl strike , he said in answer to a question at a recent luncheon , even his nuggets suffered -- season ticket sales dipped 50 % compared with the comparable , year-earlier period .


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`` it will take many months , if not years , for this suit to be resolved in the courts , '' the nfl management council , the owners ' labor arm , said in a statement .


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`` nfl players now face another season of old benefits . ''


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`` it does n't mean the nfl ca n't come up with another system ; it does n't declare every conceivable system illegal .


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the nfl players association also could face a money squeeze as the litigation drags on .


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nfl players association chief gene upshaw , a former all-pro tackle , found a ray of sunshine in the judge 's ruling .


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since any antitrust award would be trebled , he added , `` the judge is obviously warning the nfl that they will face huge damages unless they stop their illegal conduct . ''


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but the nfl players association made it clear last year that free agency was the main issue in negotiations for a new collective-bargaining accord .


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when the strike collapsed , the union filed its antitrust suit and has refused to return to the bargaining table until management offers a greater degree of freedom to union members .


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`` that 's the irony here ; the nfl does n't move until they have a gun to their heads . ''


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fact : oregon state basketball coach ralph miller , retiring this year after 38 years in the business , knew james naismith , who invented the game .


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`` although george washington and abraham lincoln were n't around when dr. james naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891 , the former chief executives would undoubtedly have enjoyed watching two of the nba 's best teams battle on the day commemorating their births .


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basketball was invented by james naismith in springfield , mass. , in 1891 and was first played in indiana in 1894 at the crawfordsville ymca .


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fact : until the san francisco 49ers ' super bowl victory , never before had teams from one state simultaneously held the pro football , baseball and basketball championships .


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fact : eight of the top 12 scorers in this week 's national basketball assn .


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fact : one year ago , college basketball 's ultimate national champions were in the middle of a four-game losing streak , their record dropping to 12 -8 .


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fact : there was a standing ovation the other night at halsey field house when poor derric turner , the navy basketball player who is 6 for 44 shooting free throws this season , made one against unc wilmington .


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fact : the maryland basketball team has not won a game this year .


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opinion : there is no better show in college basketball this year than louisiana state freshman chris jackson .


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part of the world 's most extensive romar collection hangs in a back room at the basketball hall of fame , away from public view .


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or was it when the golden state warriors selected him in the seventh round of the 1980 draft , or when he averaged 7.6 points in his best national basketball assn .


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season , was waived three times in little more than a year , played for the continental basketball assn. 's evansville thunder and tampa bay thrillers in 1984-85 , or .


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sometimes basketball fame is nothing more than convenience .


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the rest , as they say at 1150 west columbus ave. , is basketball history .


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much of the contrast -- and a surprising number of genuine basketball artifacts -- is tucked away beyond the `` spalding shoot out , '' past the bob coyne cartoons , the sports illustrated covers and the nba locker-stall exhibit .


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spike lee and michael jordan were n't even air-born when lanier first laced up what may be the most famous artifacts in basketball history .


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on a recent afternoon brooslin returned from the basketball shelves , his eyes as big as the walter brown trophy .


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`` i did n't even know i had this hollywood stars basketball until two days ago . ''


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`` for that particular basketball , '' says carol sherman of profiles in history , an autograph broker in beverly hills , calif. , `` we 'd probably price it at $ 500- $ 1,000 .


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presenting ira harge 's contribution to basketball history , a 1971-72 aba miami floridians uniform : black , orange with a magenta stripe and stirrups .


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newlin , 30 , is executive director of the indiana basketball hall of fame , soon to be located here in new castle in its first permanent home , a $ 2.5-million shrine to the favorite game of hoosiers .


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`` there 's the basketball hall of fame in springfield , mass. , dedicated to the game played all over the united states , but no other state has anything like this , '' he said .


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`` the indiana basketball hall of fame represents the spirit , the values , the tradition of being a hoosier .


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this museum will salute the schools , the players , the coaches , the communities that have made indiana the nation 's basketball leader . ''


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`` indiana has been absolutely nuts about basketball since the first state championship tournament in 1911 , '' newlin said .


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hoosier hysteria over basketball is part of our culture , part of what indiana is all about .


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on a per-capita basis , indiana has produced more professional basketball players than any other state . ''


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he mentioned that indiana has eight high school basketball gyms that seat more than 7,000 spectators .


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the hall of fame crowns a hill next to new castle 's chrysler high school , which has the biggest prep basketball gym in the world , seating 9,350 .


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the indiana basketball hall of fame has captured the imagination and pride of people all over the state , from aberdeen to zipp and zulu , in indianapolis , evansville , terre haute , lafayette , gary , elkhart , south bend , anderson , muncie , marion and bloomington , in young america , windfall , wawpecong , mongo and old tip town .


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said that he and the five other surviving members of the 1939 seven -man monticello high school basketball team each purchased a $ 100 brick .


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`` as part of hoosier hysteria , we figured it was only right we do our part in contributing to the indiana basketball hall of fame .


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twenty of us from monticello high each also chipped in $ 25 to buy a brick in memory of our outstanding basketball coach , the late alva staggs . ''


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sam alford , 46 , basketball coach at chrysler high the last 14 years , is the father of steve alford , 24 , former all-american at indiana university , now with the golden state warriors .


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the alford family bought a brick , since five alfords played basketball in indiana -- sam 's father , sam and his brother , and sam 's two sons .


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`` the five of us scored 8,000 points playing basketball in indiana in high school and college , '' alford said .


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megaphones , trophies , uniforms , letter jackets , game balls , cheerleader sweaters , yearbooks , scrapbooks , class rings , mascots and other basketball memorabilia is pouring into the hall 's temporary office in what was an old school building in downtown indianapolis , at 520 virginia ave .


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over the years , there have been 1,200 high schools in the state that put basketball teams on the floor .


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the hall will chronicle and preserve the heritage of the game as played by the thousands of teams in the hoosier state , and will depict through exhibits , film footage and video what basketball means to the state 's culture , history and personality .


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in 1962 , the first five of the 250 members of the indiana basketball hall of fame were selected :


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to be selected to the hall of fame , a man or woman must have played or coached high school basketball in the state .


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a statewide board of 25 directors , all former high school basketball players or coaches , make the selections .


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indiana clings to one -class basketball .


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last winter , newlin traveled throughout indiana , recording the sights and sounds of basketball games , capturing the essence of hoosier hysteria for the hall .


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`` admission will be free , or $ 1 at the most , with the gift shop and special all-star and old-timer hall of fame basketball games providing support along with donations .


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`` the indiana basketball hall of fame will be another chapter of indiana 's incredible hoosier hysteria . ''


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for the first time , the olympics would include basketball . ;


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`` he was happy basketball was going to be played in the olympics that august , '' his grandson recalled , `` but he was disappointed that it was n't serving the purpose it was meant to : a game you played for sportsmanship and to use the winter months . '' ;


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he never thought of making money out of basketball .


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he remembered basketball 's founder as a stocky 5-foot-8 , with sturdy forearms from growing up as a canadian lumberjack . ;


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`` but as a youngster , i was a terrible basketball player .


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the national basketball association playoffs are in full swing , a fact that delights some but produces ennui in others .


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still others believe that it is n't just the nba 's brand of hoops that 's lacking , but modern basketball in general .


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i must say that i do not count myself among basketball 's critics .


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nevertheless , i feel obliged to pass along the news that a new professional basketball league is being planned that will answer at least one of the malcontents ' beefs .


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the league has been dubbed the international basketball association .


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at the moment , it is mainly a gleam in the eyes of a handful of individuals who have yet to purchase a basketball .


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the guy who 'll run the league is dennis murphy , who helped start the wha , american basketball association and team tennis .


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in charge of basketball operations when there are some , and public relations in the meantime , is bob cousy , the old boston celtics ' flash .


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some say basketball has n't been the same since the 6-foot-1-inch cooz hung it up back in '63 .


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`` basketball 's a great sport and the nba 's a great league , '' says he .


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murphy hopes this will be the first of a broader series of contests matching teams from various countries in what eventually would become a sort of world cup of short basketball , in which his league would represent the u.s. `` basketball is the no. 2 sport in popularity -- behind soccer -- in europe , latin america and asia , and the game in those places is quickly reaching u.s. standards , '' he says .


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they point out that our nation 's colleges excel in producing highly qualified basketballers , many in the 6-4 -or-under class , and that the existing domestic professional loops -- the nba and minor-league continental basketball association -- employ just a fraction of the available talent .


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surveys i 've seen identify basketball as the world 's foremost spectator sport .


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several things about basketball 's beginnings seem worth mentioning in this centennial year .


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secondly , we are reminded of the role of chance in invention ; many of basketball 's most salient features just kind of happened .


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lastly , once basketball 's foundations were laid , it was remarkable how quickly it approached its present form .


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the national basketball association , whose teams begin practice this week , says its players will wear centennial patches on their warmup suits in the coming season , and other commemorations will be staged .


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he wrote that basketball would be basketball as long as four things did n't change : the large , light ball ; the elevated , horizontal goal ; and no personal contact or running with the ball .


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it was part of what explorer zebulon pike in 1806 called the great american desert , the high plains where grass was the natural crop and buffaloes roamed far and wide .


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on this date : in 1806 , explorer zebulon pike sighted the mountaintop that later became known as `` pikes peak . ''


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in 1806 , explorer zebulon pike sighted the mountaintop that later became known as pikes peak .


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a u.s. army lieutenant , zebulon montgomery pike , was dispatched in 1806 to head an exploratory troop mapping the lower reaches of the louisiana purchase -- sort of a southern version of the lewis and clark expedition .


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in 1808 , explorer zebulon pike declared the peak unclimbable .


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pike 's adventures along the arkansas river to the rocky mountains gave rise to a notion at the time that the huge region of low rainfall , short grass and few natural water holes was a natural barrier that would limit u.s. westward expansion .


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following the arkansas river west from the mississippi , pike and his men spent week after redundant week traversing the empty flatlands of the high plains .


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then , on nov. 16 , 1806 , on an eastern colorado meadow about 120 miles from the present city of colorado springs , pike looked up to the west and saw `` a small blue cloud . ''


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there 's a well-marked overlook here that offers a stunning view of the eastern face of the peak , the face that zebulon pike first saw from his vantage point out on the plains .


Question: how wide is the atlantic ocean ?

an unemployed british plumber arrived in western ireland on wednesday after rowing 2,300 miles across the atlantic ocean alone in a 20-foot boat he built .


Question: how wide is the atlantic ocean ?

crowley said some fishermen came to meet him wednesday `` and when they heard i had crossed the atlantic they brought me ...


Question: how wide is the atlantic ocean ?

crowley named his boat finn again after another rowboat _ finnigan 's wake _ in which he and a friend rowed across the atlantic in 1986 from the canary islands , off the coast of northeast africa , to south america .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the stis is intended to replace the telescope 's two present spectrographs that will separate light into different wavelengths , like a prism .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the crystal used would not have the capability to break apart the available light in a room into its primary colors -lrb- prism effect -rrb- , '' the air force said .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

this prism combines the light coming from both reflectors into a single beam and sends that beam through an intensity regulator into an objective followed successively by a focus magnifier and a beam splitter .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

newton split white light into its spectrum of colours by beaming it through a prism .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

a wider field of view is helpful for wildlife viewing. ; prisms bend the light entering the binoculars , allowing you to see an upright image with increased magnification and brightness. ; porro prism binoculars are bulkier and heavier , but offer an accurate sense of depth of field .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

when lighthouse keeper dennis dever flicks on a switch 15 minutes before sunset , illuminating boston light and the surrounding harbor , he is following a tradition that began in 1716 .


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boston light , one of the few remaining manned lighthouses in the country , is scheduled to be the last one automated next year .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

sen. edward m. kennedy , d - mass. , has introduced legislation that would retain boston light as the last manned lighthouse and keep it from being automated .


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dever , a petty officer 1st class in the u.s. coast guard who has supervised a crew of two at boston light for the past 18 months , acknowledged , `` i was n't happy at first when i got here but then i learned to like it. ''


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it is a boston light tradition , according to dever and his crew , to paint farrah 's toenails pink .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

at night , looking up from the bottom of the tower , the beams of light radiate out into the sky like bicycle spokes .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

depending on what day it is , dever or one of his men rise early and turn the light off 15 minutes after sunrise .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

when it 's cloudy or foggy , of course , the light is left on .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

georgia norwood , born at the light in april 1932 , was the inspiration for ruth carmen 's book `` storm child . ''


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nicmos , with three cameras and three spectrometers , will concentrate on different wavelengths in the near-infrared portion of the light spectrum , which none of the five instruments now aboard the $ 1.5 billion hubble can view .


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the new device will be able to capture an entire high-resolution spectrum of light from a star in one exposure , versus about 25 that the instruments now aboard the hubble will require , green said .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

in addition , he said , `` we 're working now to fly in '96 more modern optical light detectors , solid-state imagers and new light-gathering equipment that will just make massive improvement in the performance of the telescope , '' he said .


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the spectrometers and cameras , each loaded with an array of light detectors called charged coupled devices , will show how much light is coming at each wavelength .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the internal air force audits , conducted in april and may of this year , reveal widespread waste and abuse in the air force management of its morale , welfare and recreation activities .


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Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

in order to realize the performance of krf excimer laser , toshiba designed a resonator with a new structure and evaluated it using a prototype device .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

unlike existing resonators which introduced total output light into etalon , toshiba 's new resonator is structured to take in partial light through prisms and into the etalon .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

earlier , the shortest light pulse produced by a cpm laser was 27 fs. -lsb- . sup -rsb- 1 -lsb- / -rsb-


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

this enables the laser to compress chirped pulses , in addition to its gain saturation effect and absorption saturation effect -lrb- the colliding pulses enhance the absorption saturation effect -rrb- .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the first term in the parenthesis , a -lsb- .sub -rsb- 1 -lsb- / -rsb- , is the gain dispersion term and it reflects the effect of the bandwidth of the pulse _d_ _n _ .


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one is a negative chirp caused by a reflectance change from a slow absorption saturation effect and the other is a positive chirp caused by the fast kerr effect of the solvent in the absorber .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

although pulse compression is possible by gvd tuning , the effect is not significant .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

more importantly , the leading factor is to make the positive chirp produced by the fast kerr effect of the absorber solvent far greater than the negative chirp produced due to dye saturation .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

thus , a suitable negative gvd compensation can be introduced by tuning the prism gvd compensator to obtain a narrow fs pulse .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

this design improves the mode of the light beam to produce a tem -lsb- .sub -rsb- 00 -lsb- / -rsb-


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the frequency band of the continuous light -lrb- without the absorber -rrb- is also significantly broadened and the tunable range is 580-620 nm .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

if the compression effect is greater than any pulse broadening effect due to other factors , the pulse behaves like a higher-order soliton .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the stereorangefinder and the tracking device are interfaced , the latter sending signals to a light source for the road .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

in the stereorangefinder a right prism with mirror faces is placed symmetrically between two terminal reflectors of incident light .


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æm , which covers both visible and near infrared light so that the system can respond to semaphore lights of all three colors : green -lrb- 0.51 - 0.55 æm -rrb- - yellow -lrb- 0.57 - 0.59 æm -rrb- - red -lrb- 0.62 - 0.78


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the color of a semaphore light is identified by spectral discrimination .


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catching the light by arthur zajonc bantam press , pounds 16.99,388 pages what is light ?


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they made a box into which strong light is beamed .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

when the handle is pulled , the wand moves up into the beam , flashing brilliantly on the surface facing the light source .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

only with something to illuminate does light become visible .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

light is central to our imagination of the world .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

creation was conceived as the moment when god ordered light into chaos , and great religions like zorastrianism and manichaeism carried the theme forward by describing existence as the struggle between light and darkness .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the metaphor of the 'light of the world ' is central to christianity also , and it is unsurprising that from antiquity onwards intelligence has been analogised as the light of the mind .


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the word 'theory ' derives from the greek word 'to behold ' , and blind seers , like homer and tiresias , gaze further than sighted men because their inner light shines brighter .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

early philosophers described seeing as a projection of light from the eye .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

light itself was , quite literally , the eye- beam of god , as witness the identification of ra and the sun .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

plato thought of sight as the mingling of daylight with beams emanating from the eye , kindled there by a fire within ; inner and outer light coalesce , making a bridge for motions caused by external objects to pass into the mind .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

until the beginnings of modern science in the renaissance , the mysteries of light remained a rich source of metaphor for speculation about gods and minds .


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but with the work of italian artists on perspective , furthered by the optical researches of galileo and descartes , light began to reveal itself as a repository of mysteries much stranger and deeper than the pre-scientific imagination had ever dreamed .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

he conceived of light as particles of different sizes , each responsible for producing a different colour in visual experience .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

in quantum mechanics light is described as both wave and particle , a deep ambiguity which has led to a revision of the fundamentals of physics .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

to accommodate light in the physics of the universe , entirely new ways of thinking are required .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

by exploring the unfolding of views about light from mythology , religion and current science , zajonc helps us to a position where , in the concluding discussions , quantum theory strikes us as no more odd , though no less mysterious , than any of its predecessors .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the camera side , however , provided the technology for the sophisticated lenses , which have wide prisms - porro prisms - for better light transmission , even in fading twilight .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the user simply presses one of the two buttons twice , once to fix a red aiming light on the target and again to display the measurement .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the result is a window with clear , lightly textured glass at the top , followed by clear glass with a heavier texture and a geometric design that seems to suggest flowing water with deep blues , light green and rust colors .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

`` it lets a lot of light in and yet it gives you privacy , '' says mackey .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

`` as your light conditions change from morning to sundown , you get an ever-varying appearance to the glasswork , '' says barner .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

larger objective lenses allow more light through and are better in low light situations. ;


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

the larger the exit pupil number , the more light is being transmitted to your eyes .


Question: what effect does a prism have on light ?

roof prisms are more expensive , but offer a lighter and more compact alternative with virtually the same features as a porro prism model .


Question: what 's the longest river in the world ?

editor 's note _ with civilization encroaching on the amazon rain forest at the rate of 80,000 square miles a year , ap special correspondent hugh a. mulligan decided he 'd better go see the world 's longest river before it 's too late .


Question: what 's the longest river in the world ?

the amazing amazon , the widest , wettest and , so national geographic now affirms , the longest river in the world -lrb- 4,007 miles , 51 longer than the nile -rrb- , boasts the longest snake , the most venomous viper , the biggest rat , beetle and ant , along with razor-toothed piranhas that can reduce a brahman steer to raw bones in minutes and electric eels delivering 640 volts , enough to drive a metro - north commuter train .


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the question put to the school assembly was one that has been asked many times before in many classrooms around the world : what is special about the nile river ?


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

skinner , the father of behavioral psychology and a professor emeritus at harvard university , died saturday at mount auburn hospital in cambridge after battling leukemia .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

and the experts stalking her consciousness are none other than sigmund freud , the father of psychoanalysis , and his star pupil , carl jung , the guru of analytic psychology .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

a 1927 magazine article in which h. g. wells praised ivan pavlov , the father of classical or pavlovian conditioning , over playwright george bernard shaw confirmed skinner 's decision to abandon literature for psychology .


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charles w. thomas , a ucsd psychology professor lauded as the father of black psychology , died during surgery at 1 : 40 a.m .


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`` i was kind of teary all day yesterday , '' said jack michael , who teaches psychology at western michigan university .


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sound designer marvin read 's choice of classical piano pieces softens the mood , though more could be done to suggest the sounds of the countryside where the jungs live .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

his rejection of free will and his advocacy of behavioral engineering outraged religious leaders and others both within psychology and without .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

he wrote that he was never punished by his father and only once by his mother who , when he used a bad word , washed his mouth out with soap .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

he had begun writing stories and poems at an early age , and the original aspiration of the youth who would become a giant of behavioral psychology was for a literary career .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

watson 's challenge led to a deep schism in psychology between behaviorists and mentalists .


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

with that decision made , he pleasurably sampled the bohemian life in greenwich village for a few months before entering harvard university as a graduate psychology student in the fall of 1928 .


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and at harvard , the positive reinforcer for his conversion seemed to come less from what he was learning in the classroom than from his work in the machine shop where psychology researchers made much of their own equipment .


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thomas lived in el cajon and taught at ucsd 's third college , where colleagues referred to him as the `` father of black psychology , '' said university spokeswoman winifred cox .


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he also wrote the book , `` boys no more : a collection of writings and essays on the psychology of blacks . ''


Question: who was considered to be the father of psychology ?

that situation is considered preferable , however , because it prevents unnecessary deaths from injuries that are catastrophic but sometimes missed in a basic hospital emergency room .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

black poet langston hughes , who visited tashkent in 1933 , wrote of spending christmas that year `` inside golden 's neat , white-painted cottage. ''


Question: who is langston hughes ?

the poet langston hughes long ago said it for us all .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

speaking to about 300 worshipers at the church of st. mary in east berlin , the president of the southern christian leadership conference quoted poet langston hughes , who `` called upon us to hold fast to dreams , for when dreams die , life is like a broken bird and can not fly. ''


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she began with the names , originally wanting to call franklin `` langston , '' after author and poet langston hughes , and zora `` mona . ''


Question: who is langston hughes ?

writers who early influenced her were langston hughes and maya angelou .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

as far as writers go , everyone knowns langston hughes and james weldon johnson , '' moore said .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

the poems -lrb- by langston hughes -rrb- have no great importance , but gordon has a real feeling for words , and for lyrical singing .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

the greatest of black american poets , langston hughes , accused baldwin of confusion , saying his 'viewpoints are half american , half afro- american , incompletely fused ' .


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guillen was the mulatto son of a journalist who was first attracted to poetry by a 1930 visit to cuba by black american poet langston hughes .


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during the second hour they read aloud articles on famous africans and black american men such as poet langston hughes , musician-composer duke ellington and shaka zulu .


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from `` selected poems of langston hughes , '' an edition published this month by vintage classics -lrb- $ 9.95 ,


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writer langston hughes created the fictional character of `` simple `` 48 years ago .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

with writers like alice walker , paule marshall , charles chestnutt , jamaica kincaid , langston hughes , john edgar wideman , james baldwin and toni cade bambara in tow , `` memory of kin `` is packed with perfect images and knowing moments .


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virginia jackson , a mother of 10 who also raised seven of her grandchildren despite multiple tragedies in her life , was honored with the crystal stair award , named for langston hughes ' poem about perseverance in the face of adversity. ;


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the book looks and feels beautiful ; reproductions of paintings by winslow homer , eastman johnson and henry ossawa tanner are thoughtfully juxtaposed with folk songs , poems by langston hughes and gwendolyn brooks , and excerpts of passages from books by w.e.b .


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Question: who is langston hughes ?

his setting of the american black writer langston hughes 's poem `` misery `` makes a passably bluesy curiosity , but `` afrikanischer tanz `` -lrb- `` african dance `` -rrb- is hardly uptown saturday night .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

in the 1920s , two of the finest black writers in america , the poet langston hughes and novelist zora neale hurston , decided to collaborate on a play for broadway .


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avid fifth-graders come forward to act alongside her , and a tangle of hands shoots up when ms. madison asks for comment on a langston hughes poem .


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`` we even had a pumpkin pie for dessert , and the tables were loaded down with all the american-style dishes that those clever negro wives could concoct away over there in uzbekistan , '' hughes recalled .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

any american worker _ blue collar , gray collar , pink collar or white collar _ who has been displaced or dispossessed of his or her job , who has been subjugated to a master- slave relationship by corporate arrogance and profits without production _ can identify with langston hughes and freedom 's plow .


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zora is a school teacher dreaming of making it as a singer and songwriter .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

a love affair at 18 inspired her to write poetry , and soon mcmillan was writing vignettes .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

`` the language of poetry always touched me .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

that was the first time i knew that poetry could do more than just sound good , that it had an impact that could n't die. ''


Question: who is langston hughes ?

her poetic direction eventually came from ntozake shange , author of `` for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf , '' which won a tony award in 1977 for the play 's star , trazana beverley .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

larry horne could hardly contain his excitement at last winter 's berlin gay and lesbian film festival when he saw `` looking for langston , '' director isaac julien 's study of homosexuality during the harlem renaissance .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

horne , who has shown all of the london -based julien 's previous films , had decided to open the festival with `` looking for langston , '' which deals with intimate bonds between gay blacks and whites .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

langston hughes ' poetry is presented as a voice-over in parts of the movie .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

but horne 's dream recently fell apart when ada griffin , director of the new york -based third world newsreel , the distributor of `` langston , '' called and demanded that he not show the film .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

the hughes estate sent a cease-and-desist letter to julien in mid-june informing him that he would put griffin , horne 's festival and himself in legal jeopardy if the film were screened .


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julien had secured the rights to quote hughes ' poetry in the film , but only for use in britain .


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-lrb- `` langston `` already has been shown on `` out on tuesday , '' a gay series on britain 's channel 4 . -rrb-


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but according to griffin , film maker julien apparently was n't aware of the resistance he would meet from the `` black bourgeoisie '' who , she feels , `` see hughes as a racial icon . ''


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`` they -lrb- the estate -rrb- were appalled at any inference that hughes might have been a homosexual and they wanted all mentions of him out , '' said griffin from her new york office .


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hughes ' sexuality has long been debated among academics .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

lately , an acclaimed biography of hughes ' life by arnold rampersad , published by oxford university press , was unable to confirm that hughes was homosexual .


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why the fuss then about `` langston `` ?


Question: who is langston hughes ?

`` the hughes estate had four major points of contention : that we delete all of hughes ' poetry , all mention of the estate in the credits of the film and all excerpts of hughes reading his poetry on nbc television , as well as pay for the estate 's legal expenses in suing us .


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`` we will delete the poetry , '' julien said .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

`` i want the film to get shown -- and the film is n't so much about hughes as it 's about 'looking ' for cultural pride .


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officials from harold ober associates , an agency that represents the hughes estate , refused to comment on the legal or social implications of their cease-and-desist letter when questioned by the times .


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hughes ' leadership of the so-called harlem renaissance inspired guillen 's first successful verse collection , `` motivos de son `` -lrb- `` motifs of sound . '' -rrb-


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Question: who is langston hughes ?

in the prologue to a book of what he called `` mulatto '' poetry , guillen said : `` in these verses perhaps enter the same elements that enter into the ethnic composition of cuba , where we all are mestizos .


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he became well-known for his emotional readings of poetry to loyalist troops .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

his `` la paloma de vuelo popular `` -lrb- `` the dove of popular flight '' -rrb- includes elegies and is considered a masterpiece of the spanish poetic genre .


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from this repertory , she champions songs composed by the late margaret bonds , who set the poetry of langston hughes to music , as well as compositions by charles lloyd and leslie adams .


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Question: who is langston hughes ?

as editor of this 416 -page doubleday collection of stories , poetry and commentary , washington has chosen pieces that delve into a wide range of genuine kinfolk situations .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

he won poetry prizes and a writing scholarship to lincoln university in pennsylvania at a time when blacks in the fine arts were almost as rare as unicorns .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

in 1967 , just before his death , he published `` the panther and the lash , '' a final burst of bitter poetry about the betrayal of african-americans by the compromises of civil rights. ;


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black nativity ; by langston hughes ; producer : allen temple baptist church ; when : 8 tonight , 2 : 30 and 8 p.m. saturday , 6 p.m. sunday ; where : calvin simmons theater , 10th and fallon streets , oakland ; tickets : $ 15 , $ 8 seniors and students , $ 6 children .


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tanz -rsb- '' does n't exactly convey the sultry , sweaty rhythm of hughes 's `` low .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

the repertoire includes the rarely performed opus 40 songs to poetry by hans christian andersen , and from a purely vocal standpoint this is one of the most beautiful albums in years .


Question: who is langston hughes ?

surprisingly , the drama on stage at the ethel barrymore theater has too little of the fire with which mr. hughes and ms. hurston imbued their other work .


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one bright chilly morning , 17 community volunteers gather in the library of cleveland avenue elementary , making preparations for a day of african storytelling and readings of black american poetry .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

the sakkara site contains the step pyramid built by king zoser , said to be the first stone structure in history , and other pyramids .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

_the tomb of the architect imhotep at sakkara , where more than 4,600 years ago he built for pharaoh zozer a step pyramid , an architectural feat that quickly evolved into the true pyramid .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

ever since egypt 's king zoser built the step pyramid some 4,600 years ago , stone has been a sign of elegance and strength in the field of building and furnishings .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

two small pyramids built for the wives of pharoah pepi i were discovered under mounds of sand by french scientists who say the find could shed light on a dynasty that ruled egypt more than 2,000 years before jesus was born .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

one pyramid is in ruins , but the second could contain subterranean funeral chambers decorated with hieroglyphics , said jacques montlucon , who led the utility 's team .


Question: who built the first pyramid ?

for the last 25 years or so , extensive digging around the pyramid of pepi i has left a field of rubble at the site .