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...Jersey native, he graduated first in his class at Haddon Township High School, earning all A’s while captaining the varsity baseball, basketball, and soccer teams...
...player and a high-quality camera. A clever TV spot for the Qube, featuring popular Taiwan pop band Mayday, shows typically round objects becoming square, like a basketball being dunked through a net. Lee also followed his bigger competitors into sports marketing by sponsoring the Euro 2004 soccer tournament...
...mother a social worker, and young Burr remembers going to the neighborhood drugstore to admire not only its candy counter but also the proprietor's efficient storekeeping methods. In high school Burr sang in the barbershop quartet and played saxophone in the band. He went in for varsity soccer, basketball and baseball, and proceeded straight to the expert slope his first time on skis. Burr embraced a romantic notion that he could make any team if he tried hard enough. Recalls his mother, Lorna Banks, 80: "He was always a very sentimental and emotional boy. He always had great faith...
Americans have always been a litigious people. But there does seem to be a rise in the number and size of liability suits facing every type of company, from soccer-ball makers to cigarette manufacturers. From 1977 to 1981, the number of civil lawsuits in state courts grew four times as fast as the population of the U.S. And in the decade between 1974 and 1984, the number of product-liability suits in federal courts expanded 680%. The first million-dollar verdict did not occur until 1962, but there were 401 in 1984, according to Jury Verdict Research...
...Murdoch were always considered friendly rivals. They have even spent time together at Berlusconi's Sardinian villa. But the competition may be heating up. The Mediaset TV network, owned by the Berlusconi family, is taking direct aim at Murdoch's Sky Italia with an innovative attempt at poaching lucrative soccer viewers. As the world's first free TV network to offer pay-per-view sporting events, Mediaset surprised Murdoch & Co., whose satellite rights until recently meant an exclusive on top-flight matches. "We bought the whole cake, which has now become just a slice," a Sky executive griped. Mediaset paid...