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...think it’s worth the risk,” the individual said. “River Run is a big event, and you can’t just take it away from people...
...your dining hall, they’ve undoubtedly been working away, huddled over laptops and poring over sticky-noted library books. With the final thesis deadline fast approaching, many are days away from the time when they’ll print, bind, and send a year’s worth of work, research, and sweat out into the universe (or at least university) for final judgment...
...clubs for the product, a source close to the company says Bloomberg plans to price it at a rate similar to the fees for its financial terminals, which cost between $1,500 and $1,800 a month. Even for the lowest-revenue clubs, such an investment is probably worth it. And as more teams continue to hire quant experts to help evaluate players, the market should be strong...
...Bloomberg tool worth the $31.95 for consumers? So far, the product is drawing impressive reviews. "Bloomberg is very good at visualizing data," says Maury Brown, president of The Biz of Baseball, a site dedicated to covering the baseball industry, and a fantasy player. "It definitely has that wow factor." The site is fairly intuitive, even for a rookie, and the news ticker that scrolls across the top is candy for baseball junkies. Hard-core stat heads, however, might be disappointed that the product does not allow you to export data into, say, an Excel spreadsheet for further saucing...
...Siberian city of Surgut two years ago, the proceedings in the shabby auditorium started off as tightly scripted as a Politburo meeting. That is, until the moderator called for questions and Alexei Navalny took the stage. In front of some 300 stunned shareholders, Navalny, who owned about $2,000 worth of stock in the company, grilled senior management for several minutes about the company's minuscule dividends and opaque ownership. When he finished, there was a brief silence and then an unexpected burst of applause from a small group of shareholders in the back of the hall. The company directors...