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...sure, maybe Rush isn't the players' dream boss, nor is he even favored by other owners, including Jim Irsay. But the notion that you need to occupy some kind of moral high ground to be able to extract profit from a monopoly sport that routinely exploits its criminally inclined workforce leaves me unmoved. The NFL is just another big business - why should it be anything less - only with a huge amount of ego attached to it. Rush should fit in quite well...
...270g Soft Butter •162g Light Brown Sugar •185g Sugar •2.5 Eggs •3g Vanilla Extract •500g Flour •1.3g Baking Soda •0.3g Salt •635g Chocolate Chips...
...year-old corruption probe - the most serious yet concerning a major British firm - focuses on deals secured by BAE to supply aircraft to South Africa and the Czech Republic, frigates to Romania and radar equipment to Tanzania. In negotiating with the company, the SFO has hoped to extract a plea bargain - it's thought that BAE has been mulling a settlement, though it's unclear what, if anything, the firm would consider admitting to. But given the company's statement, it also appears BAE is ready to defend itself in court. (Read: "Court Blasts Blair Government...
...writer Dayton Duncan make plain which side they're on. (The subtitle is a hint.) A section on the battle to create a park in the Smoky Mountains contrasts schoolkids collecting pennies for the effort with logging companies bankrolling ads and "frantically cutting the old-growth forests ... to extract everything they could before the land was closed to them." Speaking to critics this summer, Burns said, "If there were no national parks, [the Grand Canyon] would be a gated community...
...Such comparisons are not unfounded. Like GM, JAL is teetering on the brink of failure and has been forced to extract huge concessions from its employees to stay in business. So far, retired workers have been asked to accept half their pension payments; the airline also plans to cut 14% of the workforce (about 6,800 jobs) over the next three years and to suspend or reduce tens of international and domestic routes. That's not enough, however. JAL reportedly needs more than $1 billion just to continue services into next year. So Nishimatsu has been forced...