As intriguing as Major League Baseball's decision to eliminate two teams is, so are the ongoing negotiations for the sale of two other teams, one of them to an owner whose team is No. 1 on the contraction list.
Selig was still on the contraction bandwagon in February 2003, even though the collective bargaining agreement called for 30 MLB teams during the life of the deal.
We almost know there's nothing real about the bearded fat man, but the story is such a comforting fantasy it would be a shame to put it on the contraction list.
Three weeks after they voted to eliminate two teams for next season, baseball's club owners will convene again Tuesday in Chicago to hear a status report on the contraction plan.
Without playing a game, Loria could suffer a doubleheader loss: the Marlins and the Montreal Expos, the team he owns now, which is No. 1 on the contraction hit list.
The authors insist that in the long term, the right way to cut emissions is not according to politically negotiated targets, but rather "based on the contraction and convergence approach".
Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are planning to introduce San Francisco Bay Area editions, hoping to win new readers and advertisers there by offering more local news, in what could be the first glimpse at a new strategy by national newspapers to capitalize on the contraction of regional papers.
The following existence result is based on the contraction principle.
Suitable adaptation laws for unknown parameters are proposed based on the contraction principle.
These results are then confirmed by a deep theoretical analysis based on the contraction mapping theory.
