There are a few obvious picks from the still-active or recently retired pool: players like Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez, Randy Johnson, Greg Maddux and Ken Griffey Jr.

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The former need to source more passive candidates because the corporate recruiters have typically exhausted the pool of more active candidates.

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Yes, we need to continually refresh the pool of VCs that have active funds to deploy.

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The pool is run by the Everyone Active on behalf of Daventry District Council.

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The central bank keeps its eye on an overnight rate called Eonia, which is calculated by taking a weighted average of all overnight unsecured lending transactions between a pool of 43 of the most active banks in the Eurozone, along with four other international banks.

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Mark Zuckerberg's company needs to keep its users active on the site and mobile apps, especially since the pool of untapped of potential new members in the U.S. is dwindling.

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Near his boyhood home in San Diego, where his parents still live, residents say the Holmes family, which includes Mr. Holmes's younger sister, lived quietly and fit into a neighborhood filled with involved parents and active kids, where houses were always decorated for Halloween and Christmas, and neighbors hosted pool parties.

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