In the past, the CIO often was viewed as a technology geek confined to the management farm team.
Demotions happen regularly, as seen in sports teams when a player is sent down to the farm team.
Suddenly those specific universities can behave a bit like a baseball farm team.
Like a baseball farm team, though, in-house self-publishing divisions provide a new pool of talent from which a publisher can draw.
Nelson scored 25 goals this season for the Islanders' top farm team.
Their club is, in some ways, a farm team for the competition.
He points to downtown Binghamton, which has theaters, art galleries and a baseball stadium, home of the Double-A farm team for the Mets.
He organized the Mid-Winter Gala for the Fine Arts Museums in part to lure a "farm team" of young donors and future board members.
There is a chance NYC FC can serve as a farm team for Manchester City, which in 2012 won its first Premier League title since 1968.
Performers come mostly from area talent vying for careers in Nashville, two hours away, and this farm team has sent many players to the big leagues.
Instead, he points to efforts such as Grammy U, a four-year-old program on college campuses to create a "farm team" of students on a path into the music industry.
In the fall of 1993, at the peak of his athletic abilities, three-time NBA finals MVP Michael Jordan quit the Chicago Bulls to join a minor league baseball farm team in Birmingham, Alabama.
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John L. Hennessy, who took office as the university's president effective Sept. 1, is facing one of the toughest tests in the school's 109-year history: to maintain the university's influence and independence amid a business community moving so fast it threatens to relegate Stanford to little more than an electrical engineering farm team.
Past regimes decimated the organization's farm system and left the team with little hope for the future.
The Cardinals are proof of how a strong farm system can enable a team to be disciplined in free agency.
The top tip for the finance ministry is Antonio Palocci, the youngish former mayor of a city in Sao Paulo's farm belt, who now heads the transition team.
In one of the biggest clean energy stories from the past week, a coalition of utility companies are planning to team up to construct a wind farm 12 miles off the coast of Long Island.
For more than a year a team of three very smart engineers set out to reinvent a server farm for the 21st century.
He ran the team from a single-wide trailer on a single-horse stud farm.
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The Calgary team collected carcasses of hoary and silver-haired bats killed at a wind farm in south-western Alberta.
This year the Windowfarms team made it even easier for apartment farmers and educators to get started on their farm by launching kits.
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Williams, though, says his farm has "not been that bad" in Wales' roller-coaster campaign, and firmly believes the team has the attributes to shock the Irish.
If he couldn't play offensive line on his high school football team, for example, it was only because he was too busy helping out on the family farm.
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