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   luuuuuuuk to All   
   Re: Luxury stadiums strike out   
   09 Mar 09 21:18:27   
   
   XPost: alt.sports.football.pro.dallas-cowboys, alt.sports.baseball.ny-yankees,   
   alt.sports.baseball.ny-mets   
   XPost: alt.politics.obama   
   From: luuuuuuuk@att.net   
      
   On 08 Mar 2009, "DC"  posted   
   some news:98CC8D32E1C04DBFA0CF16935DB4ABBA@DefaultPC:   
      
   > Wall Street Journal   
   >   
   > ...In a case of monumentally bad timing, this year three of the   
   > biggest names in pro sports -- the Yankees, New York Mets and Dallas   
   > Cowboys -- are opening three of the most expensive stadiums ever   
   > built, filled with premium-priced seats and luxury amenities. At a   
   > combined cost of more than $3.5 billion, the stadiums were conceived   
   > and financed in a vastly different environment, a time when   
   > corporations and municipalities were flush with cash. Now they're   
   > opening just as corporate America is going through a massive   
   > belt-tightening -- and trying to avoid the appearance of extravagance   
   > at all costs...   
   >   
   > Continued:   
   > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123630159510147111.html   
      
      
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