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...owner: he lowered the cost of family-ticket packages and upper-deck seating, cut the price of premium draft beer from $8.50 to $6.75 and increased payroll to field a competitive team. The Angels have the 22nd lowest (out of 30) average-ticket price in baseball and the fourth highest payroll. Result: the team won a division title last season and drew a record 3.4 million fans to Angels Stadium; 2.8 million have already purchased seats this year. Overall revenues jumped 16.7% last season, to $140 million, and Moreno expects about $155 million in 2005. He says he lost...
After a Third Circuit panel voted 2-1 in favor of FAIR, Justice Department attorneys, who are handling the government’s case, appealed the ruling to the nation’s highest court...
...Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped a town triumph over a multimillion-dollar corporate polluter...
According to a 2002 study by the U.S. General Accounting Office, American women now represent close to 47 percent of the workforce but only 12 percent of all managerial positions. Moreover, only 5.2 percent of the highest-earning high-level executives at Fortune 500 companies were women. As a result, women in male-dominated industries feel like outsiders and thus are less likely to assume the posture of the three monkeys of evil innocence: Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil...
...think the members of the board at the MTA have a fiduciary obligation to get the highest value for the MTA and all of the people who use the transit system,” Lynn says. “That part is true especially because they have a massive budget crunch...