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`` Even on the basis of 154 games, this is the ideal situation '', insists Hank Greenberg, now vice-president of the Chicago White Sox.
Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.
Functional grammar is strongly associated with the school of linguistic typology that takes its lead from the work of Joseph Greenberg.
Greenberg is the American League record holder for most RBIs in a single season by a right-handed batter — 183 RBI in 1937 ( a 154-game schedule.
Greenberg is widely considered as one of the greatest sluggers in baseball history.
To persuade him not to retire, Pittsburgh made Greenberg the first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 ($ today ) in a season as pure salary ( though the exact amount is a matter of some dispute ).
Hank's grandson Spencer Greenberg is a machine learning scientist.
Some insurance industry insiders, most notably Hank Greenberg, do not believe that it is forever possible to sustain a profit from float without an underwriting profit as well, but this opinion is not universally held.
* Following up on earlier leads, the Greenberg group report finding that the protein TDP-43 is a very prominent and highly sensitive and specific feature of IBM.
Greenberg ’ s approach, often characterized as " functionalist ", is commonly opposed to Chomsky ’ s rationalist approach.
Greenberg noted that mass " borrowing " of basic vocabulary is unknown.
He believed that multilateral comparison was not in any way opposed to the comparative method, but is, on the contrary, its necessary first step ( Greenberg, 1957: 44 ).
In the course of his work, Greenberg coined the term " Afroasiatic " to replace the earlier term " Hamito-Semitic ," after showing that Hamitic, widely accepted since the 19th century, is not a valid language family.
Specialists find extensive inaccuracies in Greenberg ’ s examples and they reject his method of multilateral ( or mass ) comparison upon which the classification is based.
Eurasiatic, a similar but not identical grouping, was proposed by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 ) and endorsed by Merritt Ruhlen: it is taken as a subfamily of Nostratic by Bomhard ( 2008 ).
Merritt Ruhlen notes that this definition is not properly taxonomic but amorphous, since there are broader and narrower degrees of relatedness, and moreover, some linguists who broadly accept the concept ( such as Greenberg and Ruhlen himself ) have criticised the name as reflecting the ethnocentrism frequent among Europeans at the time.
According to Greenberg, Eurasiatic and Amerind form a genetic node, being more closely related to each other than either is to " the other families of the Old World ".
This distinction is often overlooked but is fundamental to the genetic classification of languages ( Greenberg 2005 ).
Some linguists maintain that Uralic and Altaic are related through a larger family, such as Eurasiatic or Nostratic, within which Uralic and Altaic are no more closely related to each other than either is to any other member of the proposed family, for instance than Uralic or Altaic is to Indo-European ( e. g. Greenberg 2000: 17 ).
He's not very enthusiastic at first, but after initially struggling with how to approach the topic in a fresh way, Green is inspired to adopt a Jewish identity (" Phil Greenberg ") and writes about his own first-hand experiences.
He was Chair of FairVote from 1996 to 2008 and continues to serve on its board, served as President of the World Federalist Association and on the advisory board of Public Campaign and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and is of counsel to the Washington, DC-based law firm of Greenberg & Lieberman, LLC

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Joseph Harold Greenberg ( May 28, 1915 – May 7, 2001 ) was a prominent American linguist, principally known for his work in two areas, linguistic typology and the genetic classification of languages.
In 1947, with the participation of Rabbi Simon Greenberg his efforts toward that end culminated in the establishment of the American Jewish University, then known as the University of Judaism.
Among the many baseball players ( including well known stars ) who served during World War II were Moe Berg, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial ( in 1945 ), Warren Spahn, and Ted Williams.
Clement Greenberg ( January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994 ) was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century.
The Clement Greenberg Papers document the professional and personal life of the art critic known for championing American Abstract Expressionist painters.
She was included in the 1964 Post-Painterly Abstraction exhibition curated by Clement Greenberg that introduced a newer generation of abstract painting that came to be known as Color Field.
The first two Porky's films were directed by Bob Clark and produced by Harold Greenberg, who founded Astral Communications ( now known as Astral Media ).
Fading Suns was written by Andrew Greenberg and Bill Bridges, known for having been involved with the original Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse role-playing games which were published by White Wolf Publishing.
Many of Kiner's homers were hit into a shortened left-field and left-center-field porch at Forbes Field ( originally built for Greenberg and known in the press as " Greenberg Gardens "); the porch was retained for Kiner and redubbed " Kiner's Korner ".
The 1934 Tigers became known as the “ G-Men ,” with the team ’ s top stars being Gehringer, Greenberg and Goslin.
Cramer was not known as a power-hitter and liked to tell people about the time he was walked so the opposing pitcher could pitch to Hank Greenberg.
Greenberg suggested that the method is useful for preliminary grouping of languages known to be related as a first step towards more in-depth comparative analysis.
No. 4347 ( commonly known as The Greenberg House ) is a house situated on Wisteria Lane, in the town Fairview.
At Greenberg Traurig, Abramoff recruited a team of lobbyists known familiarly as " Team Abramoff ".
In addition to issuing their own records, they released records by the Vandermark Quartet ( featuring Ken Vandermark ), Masters Of The Obvious, Dame Darcy, Evergreen ( featuring Britt Walford of Slint ), Log Letters ( featuring Mark Greenberg from the Coctails ), Dianogah ( featuring well known poster artist Jay Ryan ( artist )), Dump ( band ) ( a side band by James McNew of Yo La Tengo ), and Brokeback ( band ) ( a project of Douglas McCombs, bassist of Tortoise ( band )).

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* Adrian ( costume designer ) ( 1903 – 1959 ), born Adrian Adolph Greenberg, costume designer for over 250 films
Clement Greenberg, for instance, argued in 1960 that each artistic medium should seek that which makes it unique among the possible mediums and then purify itself of anything other than expression of its own uniqueness as a form.
His classification was the standard one for many years ( Greenberg 1955: 3 ).
A first baseman primarily for the Detroit Tigers, Greenberg was one of the premier power hitters of his generation.
Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).
Greenberg turned them down and instead attended New York University for a year, after which he signed with the Detroit Tigers for $ 9, 000 ($ today ).
Greenberg played minor league baseball for three years.
Greenberg played 17 games in 1930 for Hartford, then played at Raleigh, North Carolina, where he hit. 314 with 19 home runs.
In 1935 Greenberg led the league in RBIs ( 170 ), total bases ( 389 ), and extra base hits ( 98 ), tied Foxx for the AL title in home runs ( 36 ), was 2nd in the league in doubles ( 46 ), slugging percentage (. 628 ), was 3rd in the league in triples ( 16 ), and in runs scored ( 121 ), 6th in on base percentage (. 411 ) and walks ( 87 ), and was 7th in batting average (. 328 ).
Still, Greenberg came in only 3rd in the vote for MVP.
A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.
After having been passed over for the All-Star team in 1935 and being left on the bench for the 1937 game, Greenberg refused to participate in the 1938 contest.
In 1938, Greenberg led the league in runs scored ( 144 ) and at-bats per home run ( 9. 6 ), tied for the AL lead in walks ( 119 ), was second in RBIs ( 146 ), slugging percentage (. 683 ), and total bases ( 380 ), and third in OBP (. 438 ) and set a still-standing major league record of 39 homers in his home park, the newly reconfigured Briggs Stadium.
In 1939 Greenberg was voted to the All-Star Team for the third year in a row.
In 1940, Greenberg was voted to the All-Star team for the 4th year in a row.
The Detroit draft board initially classified Greenberg as 4F for " flat feet ".
Rumors that he had bribed the board and concern that he would be likened to Jack Dempsey, who had received negative publicity for failure to serve in World War I, led Greenberg to be reexamined, and he was found fit to serve.
Greenberg re-enlisted and volunteered for service in the United States Army Air Forces, again the first major league player to do so.
When Greenberg decided to retire rather than play for less, Detroit sold his contract to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Greenberg played first base for the Pirates in 1947 and was one of the few opposing players to publicly welcome Jackie Robinson to the majors.
In his final season of 1947, Greenberg tied for the league lead in walks with 104, with a. 408 on-base percentage and finished eighth in the league in home runs and tenth in slugging percentage.
Greenberg also hit for average, earning a lifetime batting average of. 313.

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