Word: grown
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...perturbed by the commercial might amassed by England's Premier League. As by far the world's richest soccer league - club revenue grew 11% in the 2006/7 season to $3.6 billion, according to figures published Thursday by consultants Deloitte - the contribution from foreign players, coaches and investors has grown rapidly in recent years. With legions of foreign stars lured by the piles of cash accumulated from the lucrative sale of TV rights, only a third of players starting games last season would have qualified to play for England. Foreigners now own eight of the 20 teams: Russian Roman Abramovich owns...
...does back an existing scheme imposed by UEFA, European soccer's governing body, that requires clubs competing in the region's top tournaments to have a minimum of six "home-grown" players in their squads, who are required to have been trained by their club, or by another in the same country, for at least three years between the ages of 15 and 21, regardless of their nationality. But UEFA doesn't demand that local players actually take the field, as Blatter's more draconian FIFA proposal would. He has said he would push ahead on making that far more...
...part of Clinton's last-ditch effort to seat all of the delegates from both states, which were stripped of their delegates after they moved up their primaries in defiance of the party's rules. Clinton's rhetorical war on behalf of the two states has grown increasingly heated, as she has likened the dispute to the 2000 Florida recount, the 1960s fight for civil rights - and, in an even bigger stretch, the election standoff in Zimbabwe. But the meeting is Clinton's last remaining glimmer of hope to catch Obama, who currently leads the race by around 160 pledged...
...families to respect their privacy have made no difference. Personal family video has been aired on television. It is the kind of frenzy Western audiences have gotten used to since the still-unsolved JonBenet Ramsey case in the U.S. more than a decade ago, but in India, this home-grown tragedy is generating an enormous domestic market for tabloid journalism. Critics fear that the overzealous media coverage, combined with the police's missteps, may have already prejudiced the course of justice...
...Many locals are happy to see the feds, hoping their presence will break the brutal grip of trigger-happy gangsters over life in the city. "We have grown up with violence here, but recently it has got totally out of control," says Humberto Olvera, a 30-year-old accountant. Olvera recounts how he recently crashed into the car of a minor trafficker, and was marched at gunpoint into his parents' house until he paid the man off in cash...