The top four teams in each group would qualify for the playoffs, and to promote rivalries, the first two playoff rounds would be against conference foes.
For a heavily promoted rivalry matchup against Pittsburgh on Tuesday, Nassau Coliseum was only half full.
Interviews with current and former Trump associates reveal an executive who is fond of promoting rivalries among subordinates, wary of delegating major decisions, scornful of convention and fiercely insistent on a culture of loyalty around him.
It promotes rivalries and you can't work with who you want.
"While the merger is reviewed, Ofcom will keep working to promote healthy rivalry between operators.
There are some simple, basic principles that governments should embrace to play the proper supportive role for national competitiveness: encourage change, promote domestic rivalry, stimulate innovation.
The shift is intended to promote better rivalries, reduce long trips across time zones and give fans a chance to watch the Blue Jackets play at more reasonable hours of the night.
That close call was nearly the 2012 equivalent of Dan O'Brien failing to clear the bar in the pole vault at trials in 1992, and thereby missing out on Barcelona entirely, after months of Reebok's ubiquitous Dan & Dave campaign, promoting a rivalry between two American decathletes for the unofficial title of World's Greatest Athlete.
WWE heavily promoted the "rivalry," and Trump even appeared on a January episode to shower real money over the arena like confetti.
The magazines, including the W.W.F.'s in-house glossies, pushed ice cream bars and promoted contrived rivalries.
It's more likely to promote resentment and rivalry than excellence.
