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...While the fields in which they work seem niche, this crafty network threads together a wonderful community of talents: likewise, the work seems even more precious when you consider how easily it might have...
...He lands an enormous marlin, which is gradually consumed by sharks as he gets it back to the shore....
...It had made video-assisted refereeing the most painful on-field procedure since Crimean war amputation....
...Across Europe, the crowded field of bidders included Sky, Vivendi, Discovery, BT, beIN and DAZN....
...Those in so-called non-revenue sports, such as volleyball, swimming, and track and field, are often aspiring or competing Olympians....
...Mr Loria has owned the Marlins since 2002, after buying the club for $158m. The team won the World Series in 2003 but in recent years has struggled on the field and in attendance figures....
...Thunder Horse, a huge platform with a deck area almost the size of three American football fields, is in water 6,050ft deep about 150 miles south-east of New Orleans, and is the most productive facility...
...The Marlins are owned by Jeffrey Loria, who acquired the team in 2002 for $158m. The team won the World Series in 2003 but in recent years have struggled on the field and in terms of attendance figures....
...shareholder activism — Mr Icahn, Paul Singer of Elliott Management, Nelson Peltz at Trian Partners, Jeff Ubben of ValueAct and Barry Rosenstein of Jana Partners — are not necessarily slowing down, but the field...
...Its windows look out over sheep fields to a lake, and Little Langdale beyond, among the prettiest of the Lake District villages. We loved our week there....
...The introduction of automation at Marlin Steel Wire Products has helped boost employee productivity fourfold since 1998, estimates Mr Greenblatt, whose customers include carmaker General Motors....
...All that is left of the sugar monoculture is a few fields, the narrow gauge rails used for transporting sugarcarts, and ruined mills built from the island’s dark grey volcanic stone....
...But it is buying assets with a lot of heft: 100 per cent operator ownership of the Marlin, Dorado, King and Horn Mountain fields; 50 per cent of Holstein; and stakes in two others....
...The company said it was selling Plains its interests in the Marlin, Dorado, King, Horn Mountain and Holstein fields, as well as minority stakes in fields operated by ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell....
...On the day after the crime, Mandy was summoned to an impromptu hearing on the edge of the denuded field....
...The hedge fund manager’s previous baseball investments – the minor-league Tucson Toros and the major-league Florida Marlins – had not set the world on fire....
...In June, Afren bought Canada’s Black Marlin for $101m in a deal that gave it several footholds in some of east Africa’s highly prospective acreage, such as Kenya and Madagascar....
...Black Marlin operates in Kenya, Ethiopia, the Seychelles and Madagascar, with 1.2bn boe in net resources....
...Its £75m ($110m) acquisition this month of Canada’s Black Marlin took it into east Africa and pushed up its prospective resources to 1.2bn barrels of oil equivalent....
...Wrigley Field, the Cubs’ home for the past 95 years, is one of the most old-fashioned yet iconic properties in baseball....
...The recent history of the Cubs on the field, though, makes for grim reading....
...As with any strategy designed to deliver a competitive advantage, the opportunity to reap maximum gains diminishes when the field becomes too crowded – especially when some are ill-equipped to succeed....
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