Making the assets sweat
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Sports promoters work in a highly-competitive business that entails a wide range of responsibilities, including securing locations for events, arranging broadcast rights contracts, and paying the participants. Commercial promoters now control many events that once were run by sport governing bodies.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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Flight to subsidy: America's airlines
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US airlines have lost $10 billion over the last three years, and the Clinton administration is trying to decide what, if anything, can be done to help. Subsidies or government-backed loans would help, but that risks retaliation from foreign countries and competitors.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1993
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