We also kept things cool with a remarkable plan to transform frozen construction sites into event-hosting urban icebergs.

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This is the most painful part of an overall cost reduction plan that also includes significant cuts in spending on data hosting, advertising and outside services, primarily contractors.

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Thus, from 1903 through 1915, rather than hosting a football game, the Tournament of Roses instituted a back-up plan: chariot races.

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