Word: supported
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...curious about your take on the statistics revolution in baseball and, increasingly, basketball. You've cautioned against assessing players through measurements like height or arm strength. Some of the ideas in Blink would also seem to support old scouting models, in which you just take the guy who looks like he plays the best. My take on it is that what you're looking for is a balance between these two things. I remember once having a conversation with a top executive with the Toronto Raptors. I asked her about the stats revolution in basketball and she just kind...
...training—which is coordinated by employees of Transition House, a local women’s shelter, and The Guidance Center, which provides family support services in Cambridge—also informs stylists of available resources for abuse victims...
During her talk, Khan cited examples from around the world to support her main point—that economic and social rights are inextricably intertwined with political and civil ones...
...decision by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to suspend participation in Zimbabwe's unity government with President Robert Mugabe simply confirms what has been obvious for some time: the power-sharing deal intended to bring an end to the country's crippling political crisis is on life support, if not already dead...
...himself - easing out the 85-year-old tyrant without resorting to bad behavior himself - is far harder than Mugabe's goal of staying in power by whatever means necessary. Because of this, Tsvangirai can often seem like he is stumbling in comparison. For example, when he says that popular support equals political dominance, he sounds like he's not facing up to reality - talking about the way things should be in Zimbabwe rather than what they are. Power in the country comes from guns and soldiers, as Mugabe demonstrated when he unleashed his security forces on MDC supporters after...