Private equity dominates the news today, thanks to the professional history of one highly prominent former PE manager: Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The sports theme got me thinking about the Los Angeles Lakers and how they provide one of the most unique leadership case studies in recent professional sports history.
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Didrikson, after touring briefly as the only female member of the House of David baseball team, became one of the greatest professional golfers in history.
Will the Saints be able to cope with an unprecedented level of scrutiny and the costliest punishment in the history of professional sports?
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It is the costliest punishment in the history of professional sports, and the league received plaudits and great PR by taking such a hard stance against those involved.
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"Lose one fight (as a professional) and you are history, " said Lewis, who won a gold medal in the 1988 Olympics.
This 2011 ESPN story nicely details the accident of history that led to professional baseball leading the way in playing the song at games.
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Participants agreed therefore to build a project that will tackle the themes of national constructions, of European (or non European for that matter) identities, of cultural commonalities, with a view of understanding history in a neutral, professional and balanced way.
Most of his professional life had been spent unremarkably, teaching history in universities and compiling a 74-part encyclopedia of China.
For instance, at Rincon Venture Partners, my Partner Jim Andelman compliments my operational history with 15-years as a professional investor.
Courtenay recommended that men with a history of depression see a mental health professional before the birth of a child to work through any issues that are causing stress and anxiety.
"The combination of his injury history and the demands of being an elite professional cricketer has affected his physical, and significantly his emotional well being, " he said.
But Mr Kagan's Whiggery helps to bring long-dead diplomatic history to life: who else but a professional historian would want to read about the Monroe doctrine except for the light that it throws on America's current dilemma?
Five years ago this month the Philadelphia Phillies became the first professional sports franchise to lose 10, 000 games in its history.
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"Almost unanimously, they tell me that this present policy is working, that we have the best military in history, that we have the bravest, most professional, best prepared, and that this policy ought to be continued because it's working, " he added.
The Eagles will also make history on Sunday at Bramall Lane by becoming the first professional sports club to display an anti homophobia message on their shirts.
Regardless, it still represents easily the best result in the history of a nation which still does not have a professional football league and is far better known for its daunting rugby exploits.
Chatter is a cloud-based social collaboration application through which enterprise users can create profiles with professional information like personal contact data, area of expertise, and work history.
Liberal journalists rendered similarly harsh judgments, although one wonders why they bothered, given that the professional scholars seemed quite capable of publishing their own truculent first drafts of history.
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As Mr Boorstin loved to point out, Gibbon was an amateur: a man who, without belonging to any professional association or bowing to historical conventions, produced the most impressive work of history of his age.
And will professional and government users be inclined to trust information from Huffpo, which has a history of approaching the subjects of defense, energy and government with a strong progressive point of view?
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Before this meeting, a professional interventionist typically meets with family members or friends of the addict to get a history of what's happened, said Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer at Hazelden Foundation.
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"We could well see history repeat itself, " Fort said, while noting that South Korea's professional league was forced to reschedule a big load of games last year where times conflicted with Major League games in America--fans were home watching Korean players on television.
Presentations will focus on themes directed towards education and training for tackling cultural and ethnic-racial diversity as African-Brazilian and Indigenous Culture and History become mandatory classes in Brazil, establishing that schools, teachers and other education professional as well as pedagogic resources must be overseen and questioned regarding the re-dimensioning and reorientation of studies on the formation of Brazilian society.
Now, five years on, the DeathAdder is used by more professional gamers than any other gaming mouse, a testament to its prowess in securing them legendary status in the history of competitive gaming.
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