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Baseball tinkers with revenue sharing plan Proponents work on an acceptable formula
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Proponents of revenue sharing worked into the evening Wednesday to
devise an acceptable formula to present today for a vote by
major-league baseball owners.
A source involved in the discussions said he still expected a
revenue-sharing plan to be approved today during a joint session of
owners. The source said it would not be the "22% plan" many
expected, however.
Under that original plan, each team would have contributed 22% of
its total revenue into a central fund. That mo...
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Mayors push revenue sharing
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; SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Chicago must cut services or increase revenues again unless Congress saves federal revenue sharing, Mayor Washington warned a convention of mayors here yesterday. He stopped short of declaring that loss of revenue sharing, which has provided Chicago an annual $67 million,
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Revenue sharing loss hits area hard
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Revenue Sharing On Owners' Slate; Vote Scheduled to Set Agreement Criteria
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; NFL team owners will try to resolve a long-standing debate over revenue sharing when they meet this week in Phoenix. If they can't, it probably will be left to Commissioner Roger Goodell to resolve it for them. The owners are scheduled to vote on a proposal that would establish the criteria by
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Crawling from the wreckage: the biggest problem for the plaintiffs was that their analysis of revenue sharing, its genesis and its impact on the business were off the mark. (Fast Forward).(Blockbuster Inc. in antitrust lawsuit)(Brief Article)
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