Word: nationalization
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...broadcast in a team's local market if it did not sell out its stadium 72 hours prior to kickoff - which dates to 1973, when the league feared that TV broadcasts would stop people from buying tickets - affected just a handful of games. But in the wake of the nation's worst recession in decades, as many as a dozen of the NFL's 32 markets, including Arizona, Cincinnati, Detroit, Jacksonville, Minnesota and San Diego, are in danger of having their local telecasts blacked out. A Jacksonville Jaguars official says it's "very possible" that none of the team...
...unlike in the past, there is very little evidence to suggest that the recent jump in gold has anything to do with inflation. Gold prices started increasing around the time the government released results of the bank stress tests, which indicated that many of the nation's top banks would need little or no further financial assistance. Many point to the stress tests' positive results as the beginning of the end of the financial crisis. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...school records with 44 regular-season and 15 postseason goals and led the Broncos to their first ever New York State championship. Rogers also excelled at a high level with the Albertson Soccer Club in Long Island, N.Y., one of the most elite club teams in the nation...
...tending to one another's wounds from the bruising town halls that dominated their August recess. And if they weren't unhappy before, few of the survivors of the summer of discontent are now in a mood to deal with the controversial, politically perilous legislation to reform the nation's health-care system...
...problem is, Karzai's legitimacy is shot. Even before the election, many Afghans (though perhaps not a majority) were angry with him over his failure to curb a system of corruption and patronage that had paralyzed efforts to repair the war-thrashed nation. The international aid community is disheartened by the prospect of another five years of a government that is infested with warlords and drug traffickers. And Washington is fed up with Karzai's duplicity and fecklessness. Despite the fact that he came to power on the back of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, Karzai used the latest...