Word: caps
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...bemoan exactly the type of huge contracts that were handed out in the Bronx and Queens last weekend, baseball’s current economic situation is the reason the game generates so much energy in the off-season. Free agency and the absence of a salary cap create as close to a free market for players as exists in professional sports, leaving teams open to sign and trade players as they see fit—an exercise that is extremely curtailed in the NBA and NFL due to the presence of restrictive salary caps...
...governor will also propose to begin phasing out the Lottery Aid cap implemented in 2002, which limits the amount of Lottery Aid that can be distributed as local aid, in 2006, according to a press release, which is a year ahead of schedule...
...statewide cap is currently at $778 million...
...those of us who think this is the best comedy of 2004, the genius of the movie lies in its relocation. Yes, Zissou wears a little red wool cap like Cousteau's. And, yes, he pilots a World War II minesweeper converted into a seagoing laboratory, also like Cousteau's. But it is no longer the famed Calypso. It is now called the Belafonte (a joke nod to the Caribbean crooner). And though the boat contains a sauna, a hot tub and a purloined cappuccino machine, its wiring goes on the fritz at awkward moments and its submersible has definitely...
...coincidence. Three is a theme. Four, you're bordering on mania. After the election, we heard about TV executives seeking to sign up shows about the flyover red states. But HBO remains the bluest of the blue networks--as blue as the Pacific, a Santa Monica bus, a Dodgers cap--confident that its subscribers are unendingly interested in the angst unique to those poor souls unfortunate enough to have a SAG card. Nor is it alone. In March Showtime will debut Fat Actress, starring Kirstie Alley in a fictionalized version of her travails as a 200-lb. woman trying...