For decades in the NCAAs there were the East, West, Midwest and Mideast regionals.
Penney, where markdowns figure to be big, but a bit less substantial than the regionals, Liuzzo thinks.
Both countries shared an interest in regionals stability, which would allow uninterrupted oil flows from the region.
The Orange were seeded first in both 2010 and 2012, but didn't make it out of the regionals.
Are margins so thin at the regionals that adding two dollars' worth of seat foam would destroy profits?
The one-week change in secondary ticket prices across these regionals makes sense for 3 of the 4 regionals.
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Major airlines are raiding the regionals, and the regionals are raiding flight schools for their most experienced instructors.
After all, it's divided up into regionals, and, quaintly, regional is really a word borrowed from high-school tournaments.
Given that no team has qualified for the regionals yet, it is interesting to note the price differences across regions.
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For the other regionals, tickets sold to the Regional Semi-final sessions are only 2-3 times higher than the Regional Finals session.
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With everything from Supreme Court decisions to individual firms' salary hikes, it gives ALM a clear advantage over the few independent regionals.
We had Regionals in 2009 and then added another layer of qualifications in 2010. 30 sectionals and 15 regionals across the world.
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Similarly Cougar Field, the baseball stadium, as been a host site for two NCAA Regionals, one NCAA Super Regional and two Conference USA Championships.
The sophomore already came up huge in the regionals, leading the Wolverines back from a 14-point deficit against Kansas with less than 7 minutes remaining.
Some of the regionals' planes don't have secure cockpit doors that would thwart unruly or dangerous passengers, and some don't have cockpit doors at all.
The Trojans are 12-17 all-time, with their best results coming in 2007 and 2001, when they lost in the regionals, and in 1954, when they lost in the national semifinals.
The regionals' small workforces don't bring the same kind of antagonistic seniority problems to a merger that a pairing of two large airlines does, so labor issues aren't likely to kill a deal.
The regionals are now responsible for 53% of U.S. departures and have accounted for six domestic fatal crashes since the last crash of a major domestic flight, which occurred in New York in 2001.
The company, which has continued to air its baseball games in Denver, Seattle and Pittsburgh as FSN (Fox Sports Net) even after splitting from News Corp. three years ago, is rebranding those three regionals as Root Sports.
Although the regionals often fly routes in agreements with larger carriers and are governed by the same safety rules, in practice, Mr. McGee says, the regionals often employ lesser standards for crew training, pilot training, and operations and maintenance.
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"Compared with the major airports, going to a regional airport is more like getting picked up by a school bus at the end of your street than going to the Port Authority, " said Tripp Swanhaus, a Manhattan-based reality-TV producer who frequently eschews larger airways for secondary-city regionals.
Sprint aside, there are still plenty of regionals that don't offer unlimited plans -- along with some that do -- so we expect we're going to see a few more announcements in the coming weeks (or days, considering the pace at which these events have been unfolding thus far).
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