Word: quarterback
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Nobody owns a town the way Ben Roethlisberger, the rookie quarterback for the Steelers, owns Pittsburgh, Pa. Not Bill Ford in Detroit. Not Steve Wynn in Las Vegas. Not even Broadway Joe Namath in New York City during his glory years. So when Roethlisberger, who shattered an NFL record by winning the first 13 starts of his career, looks to unwind, he can command a choice table at any upscale joint along Pittsburgh's revitalized Strip. But most Monday nights he and a few friends hold court at Jack's, a dive on the city's South Side, where...
...many businesses survive, never mind thrive, with a customer-satisfaction rate of 50%. Somehow that ratio doesn't do justice to the 68,756 patrons packing spiffy Gillette Stadium and the 5.5 million homes watching ESPN as quarterback Tom Brady leads the New England Patriots past the Buffalo Bills. Armed with a game plan designed by the league's best coach, Bill Belichick, Brady dismantles the Bills. No doubt Bills customers at home in western New York are disappointed. Two weeks earlier, it was the Pats turn to disappoint, courtesy of a whipping from the surging Pittsburgh Steelers. The real...
...days when quarterbacks like Fran Tarkenton drew plays in the dirt are long gone. There's now far too much money at stake to leave anything to chance, particularly when a team like Green Bay has $100 million invested in its quarterback, Brett Farve. The modern NFL player is fast, ferocious and laptop equipped, and he reports to a coaching staff so well organized that it puts most corporate setups to shame. That's because if the decision making isn't right on Sunday, you lose. And so do your customers...
...powerful will the director be? Republican Senator Susan Collins describes the DNI as the "quarterback," controlling most of the $40 billion spent annually on intelligence, setting priorities among the 15 spy agencies and forcing them to share secrets. So that the director would remain neutral and not become bogged down in operational details, Congress didn't give the DNI control over spying at the CIA and other agencies. But without operational control, the director may be less useful to the President and therefore have less access to him. It will take a close friend of Bush's or someone "very...
...three young children to provide for, offers of that sort aren’t easy to turn down, and Murphy has already done so more than once. The United States Naval Academy and the University of Delaware have both sought his services in the past, and his NFL-bound quarterback says there are others who’ve done so as well...