In many ways, the labor spat is a vestige of the old NFL, which was run as a collective of low-margin family-owned business.

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They have labeled the decertification an end-run around the collective-bargaining process and filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board attempting to block it.

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The bright-eyed kids at the Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective, a student-run sports analytics group at Harvard University, have a present for you: They've figured out which teams will suffer the humiliating upset.

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But these successes require that we all take on some risk as individuals to serve both our collective and individual needs in the long run.

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As such, if your goal with investing in gold is "safety, " you have to ask yourself how safe something is when its long-run value is determined solely by the whims of the collective crowd.

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Under Armour makes a donation to begin a sewing business that works in conjunction with the micro-finance initiative run by the church in Nicaragua in partnership with the ORPHANetwork supported by GraceCity, whose collective mission is to serve a community living in the biggest dump in the poorest country in the Americas.

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