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...fans. As workers see their savings erode, they will probably be less willing to pay stratospheric ticket prices, which fund the cartoonish salaries of sports stars. Likewise, companies that dish out millions for sponsorships won't be able to justify sports-marketing expenditures to their shareholders. "The new model that has emerged over the last two decades is not going to hold up," says Zimbalist. "It's not conceivable that sports will be impervious to a downturn...
...Originally a Londoner, Cotterill was working as an English teacher in Australia when he first became interested in Laos - meeting refugees who had fled the communist takeover. One man in particular, a former Cabinet minister in the royalist government, later suggested a model for Dr. Siri. "They were more than cynical," Cotterill says of the émigrés. "They were really angry to be forced to leave what was then a good life. They'd saved money, had careers and sent their children to good schools. Then the communists moved in and suddenly this lifestyle was taken from them...
...left them in enough peace so that they could fulfill their life's purpose, which was to stand in a pasture and chew. By yanking them from their habitat, breeding them to physiological extremes, and pushing them through an industrial process as if they were identical to Model Ts...we came to think of them merely as milk wells to be tapped and burgers to be neatly wrapped in polyurethane...
...example of this second model, Tribe said that the right to not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures presupposes a degree of personal autonomy from the government...
...geological model states that we must dig beneath explicit statements to understand their original premises...