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...athletes. Most of them make more money in a year than the majority of their fans earn in a lifetime. The players' exorbitant paychecks and the resulting sky-high ticket prices are putting the game out of reach for many fans. The NHL players' refusal to accept a salary cap caused many people in the hockey support industry - vendors, arena staff, employees of sports bars - to lose their jobs, and now the NHL guys are displacing European players and taking their jobs. All for the sake of money. David Collinson Victoria, Canada Importing Knowledge Re your report on the Davos...
During his 11-year tenure with the Patriots, Wasynczuk managed the team’s daily business operations, negotiated player contracts and stadium deals, and managed the team’s salary cap...
After the break, the Crimson took control of the contest, scoring once in the third quarter to pull even at 2. Harvard beat Bucknell goalie Mandy Bynum three times in the fourth to cap off the 4-0 second run and the 5-2 victory...
...Such deals are the heart of the "cap and trade" system for greenhouse-gas emissions that forms a pillar of the Kyoto accord on climate change, which goes into effect this week. Under the scheme, the total emissions of developed nations are limited, or "capped" at a fixed level, and each nation assigns a number of CO2 allowances to its major carbon-emitting sectors; companies that have unused allowances (as a result, for example, of antipollution improvements) may sell their excess allowances to companies that need them. Theoretically, the wisdom of the marketplace will lower the cost of reducing harmful...
...President's office and senior staff from other departments, including the departments of Energy and Commerce, was using the California energy crisis to justify a reversal. Since half of the nation's energy needs are met by burning coal--the biggest producer of carbon dioxide emissions--they predicted a cap would reduce the availability and raise the cost of coal-generated power, at least in the short term. They asserted that the country's energy supply would be seriously disrupted unless the President reversed his position...