Word: contract
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Given the current state of pro sports economics, Take Me Out to the Ball Game needs a little updating. And so does the antediluvian notion that fan support is the key to franchise success. A ball club needs not only gate receipts and a good media contract but also steady revenue from stadium advertising, sweetheart concession deals and, especially, luxury boxes. "Luxury boxes are critical these days," says Craig Simon, director of sports marketing for the Chicago consulting firm of Frankel & Co. "A stadium that doesn't have them is in danger of losing its team...
...added that despte its anti- ROTC policy,Yale recently accepted a $5 million contract fromthe U.S. Army...
...abortion. "We are not trying to come in and suddenly make radical changes," said freshman Republican Enid Greene Waldholtz of Utah. "We're trying to address the legitimate concerns of people who think the pendulum has swung too far." Says Ralph Reed, executive director of the Christian Coalition, whose Contract with the American Family is the blueprint for much of the legislation: "We don't want to overplay our hand with a pro-life Congress the way the pro-abortion people overplayed their hand...
...Georgia, and extracted 70,000 words from the Speaker. "He's been saying the same thing since he was 15," says Tucker. "I just had to get him to make it shorter." The book repackages the sayings of Speaker Newt, lectures from his college course and riffs on the Contract with America...
Wednesday's rally focused on the benefits package for the contract currently being renegotiated...