Syracuse needs a home grown Under Armour, or White Wave Foods, or Starbucks, relatively new companies whose headquarters provide large numbers of jobs in Baltimore, Dallas and Seattle.

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But does Mayer totally give up and wave the white flag?

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The loss in court meant Armstrong faced an impossible choice: either go forward under accelerated USADA procedures that made a meaningful defense all but impossible, or wave the white flag and risk being branded guilty as charged.

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