But the two-year schedule was too protracted to hold the interest of many viewers, says Eddie Hearn, the managing director of Matchroom Sport.In that respect, top-level boxing might learn something from the less glamorous side of the sport.
The protracted fight over carried interest underscores the difficulty Congress faces in trying to close tax loopholes for businesses, even at a time of sprawling budget deficits and widespread public dismay about Wall Street's influence in Washington.
Many of the exposures of interest are protracted and a huge amount of information is often retrospectively collected for each subject about his/her potential past exposure over lifetime.
There are passages of great power, but they are insufficient to sustain one's interest through the protracted chapters about people of whom we know far too little to care.
What most advice fails to factor in — and what we often choose to overlook ourselves — are the costly realities of things like job loss, protracted unemployment, medical bankruptcy and high-interest debt.
However, much of the interest in radiological protection concerns protracted low-dose exposures.
Thus, clinical studies may require protracted follow-up to assess outcomes of interest.
And when national interest - national security, even - is at stake, negotiations can be protracted.
Coordinating complex, protracted partnerships involving numerous stakeholders with differing interests can be challenging.
Mr. Afremov was paid $275 million in 2005 to sell his interest in the AGA Medical Corporation after a protracted court battle for control of the company.
