John Allen
John Allen
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Racing is a $2 billion-a-year industry. Half the people who invest in our fund have never invested before. They don't know a stock from a bond. They like stock car racing.
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You have a lot of people with a lot of money. It's not surprising that they are going to take advantage of being able to easily buy tickets online.
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Firemen and police have a big Celtic background, from way back when New York police and firemen were mostly of Irish and Scottish descent.
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We are going to have to wait and see what their expectations are. As far as I can see, this is as good a sale of what the employees could have hoped for. We hate to see a sale, but this could turn out to be the best thing for the employees.
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We had a few come around, but the boogie man scared them away. The signs did the job.
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I think that's what a lot of people like about them.
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That worked out so well, and reservations were so popular.
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That was our plan all along, was to go on hiatus and it'll be back, bigger and better. The fans really miss it. We got a lot of calls and complaints about not having it the last couple years.
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It is a mess. I feel badly for the property owners. We have a procedure in place which makes it harder for something like this to happen.
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Given that, and given the challenges there are in our core business over the half year, the performance and the result are very encouraging.
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Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.
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We thought we'd try something a little bit different. But also, in deference to our fans that do drive quite a ways, it gives them a chance to get here and get home an hour earlier.
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He is very concerned about how his art was misinterpreted. He's a great kid and it's obviously a mistake.
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He talks of relativism ... the smorgasbord of beliefs he sees unfolding, and he is concerned the church will be assimilated if there is not an effort to resist it. That effort may not fill up churches right away, or win popularity contests. ... I don't know if it's right or wrong, but it's the framework he's operating under.