Word: lockout
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...hockey skate into this mess? Coming out of the 2004-05 lockout, Versus outbid ESPN for rights to hockey games. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman chose cash over the increased exposure any sport gets from ESPN, which is currently in 98 million homes. While the game has gotten better - new rules have increased scoring, and phenoms like Ovechkin and Crosby have given the game new blood - Bettman lost a mainstream audience to which he could market this improved product. So while Ovechkin-Crosby plays out in the wilderness, Bettman should wonder what might have been. (See TIME's picks...
...mentally stuck in the 1970s and '80s," says Atilio de Angeli, one of the leaders of the farm revolt. Indeed, while the farmers claim to want to negotiate with the government, they say the government does not want to reciprocate. "This is not a farm protest; this is a lockout," growled Peronist legislator Carlos Kunkel, an unofficial spokeman for the Kirchners, comparing the farmers to company owners who shut down their factories rather than negotiate with striking employees...
...thinking about voting Democratic-for Obama-for the first time, told me after the church service. His wife Kim joined us and said Bob had been a salaried worker at AK Steel, "and the union was a big problem there. They worked at not working." Eventually there was a lockout-and AK Steel reorganized itself as a nonunion shop. "They're making big profits now," Bob said. "You wonder why there can't be some middle ground" between the old-fashioned, inflexible unions and "the ceos selling out these companies, shipping jobs overseas...
Some experts are beginning to question that lockout strategy. Herbert Brücker, a migration expert at Germany's Institute for Employment Research, says Germany missed out by blocking the first waves of immigrants. "This was a perfectly qualified generation of people from Poland that would have come here. Five years from now, we may only get what is left over. It may be too late." That's why Finland, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain have decided to follow Britain and Ireland and open their markets to the eight new members from Eastern and Central Europe that joined...
...years, provided the infusion of offense that Harvard (3-13, 3-3 Ivy) had lacked all season. The Crimson scored just seven goals in starting the year with 10 straight losses, and totaled just 12 in its 15 games before Saturday, having been shut out six times. Another such lockout was officially prevented, however, when Brown notched her first score against Big Green (3-12, 1-5) at 16:30 of the first half. Brown’s initial goal was set up by junior back Devon Shapiro, who fired a shot on Dartmouth goalie Jordan Sedlacek off a corner...