Word: aspects
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...most important aspect of the new model is the change from a single-entity league to a franchise operation. In the old WUSA, each investor operated a team or two--Time Warner Cable, for example, ran the Carolina Courage and New York Power, and Hendricks ran the San Jose CyberRays and Washington Freedom. The owners split losses equally. Under the franchise model, danger does loom: one team can acquire more riches, creating competitive imbalance that bankrupts other teams and adds instability (see Yankees, New York, and Expos, Montreal, in baseball). But single-team ownership builds incentives to leverage local sponsors...
...good-intentioned as they may be, the most frustrating aspect of this narrative trope is the suffocating bathing of allegory many of these characters receive. The most recent example of this problematic trend is Dreamworks’ Shark Tale, which has a prominent character so metaphorically drenched in sub-meaning that it pinpoints with accidental exactness what is wrong with the contemporary Hollywood political praxis...
Perhaps the most disappointing and dangerous aspect of the status quo is that voters might actually form their opinions about the candidates from the substance-less drivel Americans got a taste of Thursday. Until the presidential debates improve significantly, all we can hope is that voters manage to inform themselves despite a dearth of valuable political discourse...
...It’s been productive,” Tavani said of his new offense. “We’re trying to achieve some balance, so defenses don’t zero in on one aspect or the other...
...sexual aspect of the film is something that, unsurprisingly, has made many critics attack the film as exploitative, with some even calling it misogynistic in its unabashed portrayal of Vera’s numerous sexual exploits that lie at the heart of what Toback calls her “desire for self-discovery...