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Referees inhabit a closed but unstable world, based on a jesuitical hierarchy of ratings. After working each game, refs receive a secret grade on their performance from the coaches of both teams and a "brother" official on a scale from one to ten. Ratings are an official's lifeblood. Those who fall into the bottom ten per cent of the pile at the end of the year are summarily sacked and replaced by "freshmen officials," who are brought up from the snakepits of high school ball and community leagues. "The cut gives iniative to young guys who are just starting...
...Profit is today a fighting word," he said, adding that, "profits are the lifeblood of the economic system," and the "magic elixir" on which economic progress depends...
...marble or clay. Sometimes the original artist supervised the reproduction process. In other cases he did not participate at all or the works were cast after his death. This all adds up to a wide discrepancy in quality from piece, to piece, and arguments about quality are the lifeblood of art historians...
...magazine's founders, said yesterday that Epps took over a month to give his approval because he was very concerned about "protecting the Advocate's interests." The final charter for the new publication prohibits it from selling advertisements because "Epps said we shouldn't cut the lifeblood of the Advocate," Baker said...
...high accident and attrition rate among Cambridge's automobile population is the lifeblood of the many junkyards on the alley--it creates a very high demand for used parts and it provides the dealers with an endless stream of junked cars from which to salvage those parts. The connection between all the cars piled in the yards in the alley and the personal injury and property damage that resulted from the traffic accidents involving these cars is often difficult to make. But, on some of the manged cars, cryptic yellow markings on the windshield tell the tragic story...