Simmons's book is an attempt to evaluate (and re-evaluate) great players and great teams and debunk myths through the prism of rules changes, evolving body types, improved training, the rise of the black athlete, talent gluts, expansion, competition from the A.B.A., the influx of foreign players and coaching innovations.
In Europe and America, expansion and competition were the essence of the century, and the book trade had a full share of both.
In 1974, MCI filed its antitrust suit against AT&T, accusing it of unfairly thwarting the expansion of competition in the long-distance market.
However, the news is a big deal for Patreon, which raised $15m of venture capital funding in June 2014 to continue its expansion amid competition from crowdfunding services like Kickstarter, Indiegogo and PledgeMusic, and also Bandcamp which recently started enabling artists to charge monthly subscriptions.
Virgin, Care UK, Ramsay Health and other private firms, many of which have increased their role in providing NHS care amid an expansion of competition driven by the coalition's NHS shake-up, have attended briefings run by the charity Macmillan Cancer Support, which is advising the four CCGs on the cancer contract.
PONDERING PLAYOFF EXPANSION The competition committee discussed the possibility of expanding the playoff field by two teams, and the Giants' president, John Mara, a member of the committee, said it would be discussed again when the committee convened next in Naples, Fla., before the league's annual meeting in Arizona in late March.
Kalanick discussed Uber's struggles against regulators, expansion and competition with TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis at TechCrunch Disrupt today.
Finally, there is a significant variety of private entities and plans partly because health reforms have stimulated the expansion and competition of the private sector.
Using fluorescent imaging techniques, tumors can then be followed in vivo to assess clonal expansion and competition.
Many features in the evolution of cancer are shared with bacterial, viral, or parasitic populations, including asexual reproduction as well as clonal expansion and competition.
An important conceptual breakthrough in understanding cancer lies in Darwinian and ecological theories: cancer is a disease of opportunity, associated with clonal evolution, expansion, and competition within the body (Cahill et al. 1999; Merlo et al. 2006; Greaves and Maley 2012).
