Word: baseness
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...team's eight home games will be broadcast in the hard-hit region (by comparison, only nine of the NFL's 256 regular-season games last year were blacked out). "My worry is that if the NFL doesn't look at changing the rule, we're losing a fan base," says Richard Clark, president of the Jacksonville City Council. "I would like to think they would really, really look at those communities which are hardest hit and have an honest discussion about it, as opposed to saying this is the way we've always done things...
...flip side, of course, is that so far there is no evidence that the blackout rule has really alienated any part of the league's huge, dedicated fan base. But if it begins to have a wider impact, frequent local blackouts could do some long-term damage to the NFL's business. In Detroit, Yuille believes that after five Lions games were blacked out last year, casual fans completely lost interest in football. "More than anything, television is a mass-market promoter of a sport," says Zimbalist. "You don't want to cut that...
...like but also offers diverse elements of musical sophistication, giving him a universal appeal. Lerche released his first full-length album, “Faces Down,” in his native Norway eight years ago, and since then he has steadily acquired a devoted and loving fan base. He was brought to a wider audience in North America by his work on the “Dan in Real Life” soundtrack, released in 2007. Throughout his career, the singer-songwriter has dabbled in jazz, orchestral sounds, straight-up rock, or wherever his fancy took him. His sixth...
...losing their health care; they're worried about their 401(k)s and whether or not they're going to be able to afford to send their kids to college. And so I think that there's an understandable sense that I really have to take care of home base right now and make sure that I'm doing everything I can to provide security for my family...
...they seek to answer, but by the methods they use.” HSPH’s researchers will be focusing on the use of mathematical models to analyze the spread of infectious diseases. In contrast, MIDAS’ other centers have primarily relied on “individual-base models,” which involve finding patterns in tracking an enormous number of individuals. “With a mathematical model, you give up a little realism, but you gain understanding of what’s happening,” Lipsitch said...