The sales process was led by Blackstone LP, the New York-based investment advisory firm, which held the auction Tuesday evening, just hours after Major League Baseball approved three finalists in the bidding, allowing current owner Frank McCourt to accept the highest and best offer.
If money talks, no National Football League owner talks louder about winning than Dan Snyder, the billionaire owner of the Washington Redskins who regularly has among the highest payrolls in the league.
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On Thursday, Consumer Reports said the Volt scored the highest rating in their annual owner satisfaction survey, with 93% of buyers saying they would purchase the vehicle again.
Countries with the highest levels of owner-occupation, such as Finland, Ireland and Spain, where around 80% of households own the roofs over their heads, tend to have the highest rates of unemployment (see chart).
He was there to induct John Madden, the former head coach and famed NFL analyst as the seventeenth "Raidah, " as Davis put it in his Brooklyn accent, to grab football's highest honor, including the owner himself.
He was a near genius at salary negotiations with Walter Briggs, the parsimonious owner of the Detroit Tigers, and in the final years of his career was the highest-paid player in baseball.
His father had been the fifth-highest taxpayer in Budapest, owner of five restaurants.
Power Asia Pacific reported last fall that initial quality of new Chinese models improved significantly in 2012 vs. 2011 and was the highest since the researcher started doing the new-car owner surveys there 13 years ago.
Argentina has one of the highest consumptions of beef in the world, and the owner of The Argentine Experience, Englishman Leon Lightman, travelled for six months through the country, visiting cattle ranches to find the best sources of grass-fed beef.
Colts owner Jim Irsay was on record as far back as December in proclaiming that Manning would be the highest-paid player in football in what appeared to a short time frame.
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