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However, it’s all but certain that the Nationals will pay whatever it takes to sign Strasburg—they’re under considerable political pressure to do so. The team was criticized for striking out with last year’s top pick, Aaron Crow. Most importantly, though, the Nationals, at an MLB-worst 24-55 as of July 5, desperately need help winning. Too bad one player can never turn a franchise around—especially one who only plays every fifth...
...head coach, 34 of them at Aplington-Parkersburg, and was one of the most well-known high school football coaches in Iowa. He was honored as the NFL High School Coach of the Year in 2005, and four of his former players are in the NFL: Green Bay's Aaron Kampman, Jacksonville's Brad Meester, Detroit's Jared DeVries and Denver's Casey Wiegmann. Thomas made national headlines last year when he insisted that the high school's football field, named in his honor, be rebuilt as a way to help restore community pride...
...With reporting by Aaron J. Klein / Jerusalem
...have been drooling over the development possibilities. For instance, the Georgelas Group is planning to scrap the car dealership and other low-rise buildings sitting on the 20 or so acres it owns in Tysons to create a mixed-use development near a soon-to-be-built train station. Aaron Georgelas, the group's managing partner, is happy to donate land to the street grid, since the county will allow him to build higher because of it. He also knows that tearing down revenue-generating buildings to put up new ones - even if they're three times as large...
...when they advise reducing profit to control risk, even when other companies are pressing forward.While backward-looking VaR models relied entirely on data from past years, forward-looking VaR models were able to pick up on the increased volatility of the market before securities prices took a nosedive, says Aaron C. Brown ’78, a risk manager at the quant hedge fund AQR Capital Management. But when the forward-looking VaR suddenly rose—reflecting a dramatic increase in risk—warning signs went unheeded.“People have a tendency to ignore that...