In football, the New Orleans Saints will not soon recover from the penalties and suspensions imposed by the NFL for the team's outrageous system of bounties for disabling opposing players.
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The NFL was forced to hit the Saints hard to discourage any other team from allowing a system of player bounties to go unchecked.
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The NFL, under siege on the issue of player safety, announced new penalties in its investigation of performance bounties and the New Orleans Saints.
It was a desire to keep the oil cartel's market power in check during the oil-price shocks of the 1970s that led western oil companies, denied access to the bounties of the Gulf, to begin extracting oil from the North Sea, Alaska, the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
No need to be a purist about the bounties of DVD, which aren't confined to feature films.
The continent is rich in natural resources, which to some degree may have been its undoing, save for the bounties of a few settler families.
Private companies would be paid bounties out of the fund for successfully removing debris according to the debris-creation-avoidance value assigned to each object.
Russia--known for its pack of lavish spenders whose bounties are intimately connected to equity markets as well as demand for oil and gas--saw a decline of 26.5% to 97, 000 HNWIs.
Vilma's one-year suspension, because of his alleged role running a system in which the Saints paid bounties for injuring opponents, was nullified after a series of hearings, the final one handled by former Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
The Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reforms passed in the summer of 2010 empower the SEC to pay bounties for tips submitted by corporate whistleblowers.
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Small wonder he was motivated to gamble: a quick cost-benefit calculation would have told him the chances of detection were slight compared with the bounties available.
While numerous players have said recently that bounties have been a common, well-known part of pro football for years, people familiar with league operations said NFL investigators never had concrete information about bounties they felt they could prove.
Those incentives came in a variety of forms, from directly helping companies defray the cost of building plants or acquiring land, to cash bounties for each new job created.
The whistleblower program mandates that the SEC must pay individuals bounties if they come forward to report violations of federal securities laws.
The NFL found evidence that bounties were put out on quarterbacks Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings, Cam Newton of the Carolina Panthers, Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers, and Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals.
Recently the NFL has been investigating allegations that some on the New Orleans Saints were paid bounties for inflicting injuries on opposing players during the course of a game.
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