Rather than chase the Rafael Nadals and Maria Sharapovas of the world, he wanted to seek out lesser, even struggling, professionals.
For all the high-tech advances, perhaps the biggest financial boon for struggling professionals is a large wooden box: the hide.
Now, dispatches detailing the travails of struggling professionals can always be read as snide, of course, but nothing's further from the truth.
"It really was sort of not very athletic, misfit, struggling professionals who were working off hangovers in the park," he said.
Seventy years ago, a struggling professional hockey team, desperate for fans, victories and a new arena, adopted Brooklyn as its temporary home for one year.
Imagine, say, a new comedy about a struggling professional-football team that develops an elaborate bounty system to encourage its selfish stars to play with primal ferocity, cheered on by a defensive coördinator who keeps a running list of the opposing players' career-threatening vulnerabilities.
This, along with the city's struggling professional sports teams, drew negative national press.
We are told of struggling young professionals buying art on layaway — and, much later, getting disgusted with art-fair feeding frenzies in the new millennium.
CSR programs provided innovative, integrated approaches to curriculum, instruction, provisions for struggling students, professional development, leadership, parent involvement and more.
Our rivalry with Catholics at times seemed fuelled by an unacknowledged tenderness, theirs for our historical struggles, professional erudition, and exegetical trenchancy, ours for their majestic spaces, genuflecting hockey champions, and forgiving, suffering servant — a Jew, after all.
Our rivalry with Catholics at times seemed fuelled by an unacknowledged tenderness, theirs for our historical struggles, professional erudition, and exegetical trenchancy, ours for their majestic spaces, genuflecting hockey champions, and forgiving, suffering servant a Jew, after all.
