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Still, there's little doubt that the NFL will use the new JAMA findings to bolster its stance in what has become an ugly battle over the treatment of former players. In recent years, several retired players have been denied disability compensation from the NFL for serious health conditions, including heart disease, which they attribute to their time playing football. While the NFL pays out about $1 billion in pensions and other benefits each year, it sets aside just $20 million annually to care for disabled retired players. Players' advocates say that allotment is too small to cover the injuries...
...They smell blood.' BRUCE RIEDEL, former CIA analyst, on al-Qaeda's exploiting the turmoil in Pakistan to bolster its strength...
...Symphony Orchestra and credit him with motivating them to continue playing music in college. Buzney also mentioned that Cortese, who fulfills conducting engagements worldwide and has extensive experience planning tours for the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, is especially eager to increase the number of HRO performing tours and to bolster the orchestra’s national and international presence. “We were looking for a person who could connect with undergraduates and challenge them on a personal basis... Cortese is the perfect match for an orchestra that is craving to be taken to higher levels...
...health. No small sum, to be sure. But amazingly, what Citi was required to raise was less than half the $13.7 billion that competitor Wells Fargo was told to come up with. And far less than the nearly $34 billion that regulators said Bank of America needed to bolster its capital by in the next six months...
...Some discrepancies would seem to bolster Pelosi's case. Senator Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who, according to the chart, was briefed later that same month, says he has no recollection of such a meeting. And Senator Jay Rockefeller, who was briefed in September 2003, says critical information was withheld from him about the legality of the practices to such an extent that by 2005 he had launched a "full-scale effort to investigate," according to his office. (Read about the torture memos that were released...