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...economic downturn is that the gambling instinct gets kicked out of everyone. That goes from the man at the Black Jack table who has been up 48 hours drinking Scotch and trying to win a few hundred dollars back, to the person who is too afraid to bet a portion of his income on buy a house because it may lose some of its value...
...stalled. More than any other major pro sport, NASCAR depends on corporate sponsorships to fund its operations. Those logos splashed all over a driver's racing suit aren't just for show. The sponsorship has grown to the point where the more corporatized circuit has alienated a portion of the sport's beer-drinking core. And as these companies pull back on their marketing budgets in the face of massive layoffs and losses - Sprint, NASCAR's largest TV advertiser, will slash 8,000 jobs after losing $1.2 billion in the first three quarters of 2008 - the financial foundation...
...good portion of the cutbacks can be attributed to the sport's success. "A couple or three years ago, you had so many new teams coming in," says team owner Rick Hendrick, who fields cars for Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. "You had Toyota coming in with new teams, and there were so many people planning on running multiple teams that the pool of people moving in and being trained just kept growing and growing and growing. It looked like there was no end in sight. All of a sudden, teams can't find sponsors, they shut...
...detailed accounts of various sandwich shops. Another friend described the “Fat Bitch,” which far and away takes the prize for—I don’t know, something. Originating in a grease truck on Rutgers’ campus, it contains a hearty portion of Cheesesteak, chicken fingers, two sticks of string cheese, mayonnaise, ketchup, lettuce and tomato heaped onto Italian bread. Oh and French Fries too. The Fat Bitch fanboy later confessed that he was the one who had asked Widener to purchase the PBS sandwich documentary.Five sandwich-filled dreams later, I realized...
...terms of 15 goals, broken up into three sub-areas. Massachusetts state policy received a D- for identifying effective teachers, a D+ for retaining effective teachers, and a D+ for dismissing ineffective teachers. According to the report, Massachusetts “completely missed seven goals, met a small portion of four, partially met one, and nearly met one and fully met two.” One of the goals that Massachusetts met was establishing teacher induction programs in which new teachers are assigned a mentor. Massachusetts also fared well in increasing the salaries of teachers who teach in shortage subject...