The plum market sector of 45-65 year-olds is now half regenerated, and every year that goes by the singed cynical private investors immolated by the crash of 2000 are passing out of the investment generation and replaced.

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The possible outcomes of a win by the plaintiffs in the O'Bannon case have been cast in doomsday extremes: If the NCAA loses, some say, the governing body will be immolated as athletes turn into cash-addled mercenaries and top-level conferences are bombed into the stone ages.

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