Another fan of emerging-market debt: Morgan Harting, senior portfolio manager and emerging-markets multi-asset team leader at AllianceBernstein Investments Inc.
Yang Fan, a 26-year-old Internet whiz, two years ago launched one of Shanghai's first new-media web-design companies, Shengquan Design.
She's a fan of the car service Uber -- which can pick you up based on your smartphone's GPS -- for those over-imbibing.
Martin's largest "Song of Ice and Fire" novel (the 973-page fan-favorite "A Storm of Swords"), the writer-producer duo are delivering slightly longer episodes to the network.
But a nicer gesture for your fan-base is to find some baseball minds and strategists that have a history of cost-effectively running a successful major league franchise.
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Murray was wise enough to increase the fan base via an e-newsletter which at one time had up to three fans on it- their biggest circulation yet.
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Armies of salespeople fan out across the cities where Groupon operates, glad-handing small-business owners and convincing them of the opportunities to be found in short-term group discounts.
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Moroney has long been a fan of Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) and still thinks it's a quality name for conservative-growth investors.
And the edit-happy fan--no doubt worried about getting sued--later apologized.
With La Liga and Serie A reeling under mountains of debt, many see it as the fan-friendly alternative to what can sometimes feel an over-hyped and over-commercialized Premier League.
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Fan mail -- that old barometer of an entertainer's popularity -- has become off-limits for many in Hollywood since the anthrax mail attacks in New York City, Washington and Florida.
The small package also happens to be almost fan less -- there is an emergency fan that is designed to only turn on in extreme cases -- and has a faster chip.
And if he didn't hit a home run, he at least had a stand-up triple -- or a 25-point game if you're a basketball fan, or a three-touchdown performance if you're into football.
Not satisfied with piratey puns or bad jokes about the "poopdeck, " these people express themselves through cosplay -- the fan-centric practice of dressing up as fictional characters -- and take great pride in their imaginative creations.
This noise consisted mainly of the high-pitched whirr of the CPU fan, but it was barely noticeable -- to the point where if you got distracted, you'd have to re-focus your concentration just to make out the sound.
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As for the other incidents that have beset the type over the past few months -- a fan shaft failure on an engine, an oil leak, a windshield crack -- all can safely be put down to teething problems.
Bellamy stressed that he remains a fan of the Millennium Stadium, but that with current fan levels - far down on the 73, 000 average of just five years ago that made Wales the best-supported team in Europe - smaller venues must be used.
The corporate owners may so appreciate the new capital from Fan-Pac that the Board of Directors (elected in part by the Fan-Pac) may authorize a small percentage of the new capital for charitable projects designed to help the communities that support the team.
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Di Canio was once a member of a hardcore right-wing fan group that follows his hometown team Lazio -- the club where he started his career and later got into trouble when he returned, when he made straight-arm salutes to the crowd in 2005.
Even though the cult comedy series, Father Ted, about three hapless priests living on the fictitious Craggy Island filmed its last episode in 1998, such was the strength of its fan-base that it gave rise to one of the country's zaniest get-togethers, Tedfest.
Thus, for the well-heeled sports fan sitting court-side, the federal government rebates more than one-quarter of the required donation. (80% of the top income tax rate, 35%, equals 26%.) Since the deduction carries over to state income taxes, most states also implicitly rebate a portion of the cost.
But you know, I - as much Im an - a huge fan of Paris, I also think that people dont often get time alone - that time alone is really a luxury, when you can kind of clear the docket and say, oh my gosh, what is this mess all about, and really get back to the essentials.
He has been a fan favorite during pre-season games in Florida, where many in the crowd at Joker Marchant Stadium have been double-checking their programs and looking him up on their iPhones.
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The addition of the Fan Drive Gear System added only seven moving parts, but the 18-inch-diameter gearbox had to be engineered to withstand thousands of high-stress takeoffs and landings without maintenance.
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Other winners include HBO Go (four awards, including best media streaming service), Lady Gaga (for best celebrity-fan social presence), Conan O'Brien (for best celebrity-fan website) and The New York Times (best news social presence).
He may be a fan of low-budget carrier Spirit Airlines, which made headlines this spring when it announced that it was installing "pre-reclined" seats on some of its planes as a space- and cost-saving measure.
The proliferation of electronic devices and programs that provide up-to-the-minute sports information to the individual fan are relatives of in-facility technology, from the manual scoreboard at Fenway Park to the massive JumboTron at Cowboys Stadium.
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Over the years, fan clubs mushroomed, arcane role-playing games based on the Lord of the Rings were developed - and Tolkien's literary stock plummeted.
No doubt clinging to yesterday's customs helps explain why tennis' fan base--rabid as it is at the core--is limited, compared with other major sports.
The big mistake, he said, was not capitalizing on the fact that Northern Virginia is far enough away from the District of Columbia to eliminate a lot of fan territory overlap--which both clubs estimate at 25%--but close enough to maintain the joint cable venture.
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