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Huizenga and expansion
However, on June 10,, the National League awarded a Miami-based franchise to Huizenga for a $ 95 million expansion fee.
In 1990, Henry negotiated to purchase the Orlando Magic NBA team, for a short time was the lead general for an expansion team which became the Colorado Rockies, headed a group attempting to land an NHL expansion bid for South Florida which ended up going to Tampa Bay, pre-dating South Florida's more successful NHL expansion bid soon after by Wayne Huizenga.

Huizenga and franchise
" After Game 7, when asked about rumors that he may retire if Huizenga sold the franchise, Leyland quipped, " My wife doesn't like me that much.
The search for a new arena began in 1992, when Wayne Huizenga obtained the new franchise, the Florida Panthers hockey team, who initially played at the now-demolished Miami Arena.

Huizenga and .
Cadillac is located in Michigan's 2nd congressional district, represented by Republican Bill Huizenga.
On March 7,, Wayne Huizenga, CEO of Blockbuster Entertainment Corporation, announced he had purchased 15 percent of the NFL's Miami Dolphins and 50 percent of the Dolphins ' home, Joe Robbie Stadium, for an estimated $ 30 million.
It was a foregone conclusion that one of them would be placed in Florida ; the only question was whether Huizenga would beat out competing groups from Orlando and Tampa Bay.
Following the World Series victory, Huizenga dismantled the team, claiming financial losses despite having won the World Series.
Huizenga soon sold the club to John Henry, a commodities trader from Boca Raton, during the off-season.
As of May 1, 1999, the screenplay's cover page listed the following writers: original draft by Jamie Williams & Richard Weiner, John Logan, Daniel Pyne ; subsequent revisions by Gary Ross ; revisions by Raynold Gideon & Bruce A. Evans ; revisions by John Logan ; revisions by Lisa Amsterdam & Robert Huizenga ; latest revisions by Oliver Stone.
The screenplay was also based in part on the book You're Okay, It's Just a Bruise: A Doctor's Sideline Secrets by Robert Huizenga.
Huizenga was the intern doctor for the L. A.
" Huizenga left the Raiders in the early 1990s, disgusted at the way the medical advice was kept from players and Rosenfield being allowed to continue treating them after several mishaps, one of which is closely mirrored in the film — Shark's neck injury and risk of sudden death, based on the real-life Mike Harden case.
He graduated from that institution in June 1909 and was married shortly thereafter to his sweetheart from his Hope College days, Anna Huizenga.
Melk brought the idea to his friend and business associate, Wayne Huizenga, who agreed to buy the company after overcoming initial concerns about the video industry.
Huizenga and Melk used similar techniques in growing Waste Management, and soon, they were opening one store every 24 hours.
At the helm, Huizenga spent the late 1980s acquiring several of Blockbuster's key rivals — most notably Major Video.
In 1997, Leyland was hired by Wayne Huizenga to manage the Florida Marlins and promptly led them to the franchise's first championship.
In the offseason, Huizenga dismantled the team in what became known as " the fire sale.
At his press conference, Leyland remarked that he thought his job was to win championships, but that apparently wasn't what Huizenga wanted.
Miami Dolphins owner Wayne Huizenga quickly joined forces with bowl organizers and brought in Blockbuster Video, which he owned at the time, as title sponsor.
In 1990, Wayne Huizenga, then Chairman of the Board and CEO of Blockbuster Video and Huizenga Holdings Inc., agreed to purchase 50 percent of then-Joe Robbie Stadium and became the point man in the drive to bring Major League Baseball to south Florida.
On January 24, 1994, Huizenga acquired the remaining 50 percent of the stadium to give him 100 % ownership.

stated and intention
But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.
Each of these films contains experiments in narrative and intertextuality, reflecting De Palma's stated intention to become the " American Godard " while integrating several of the themes which permeated Hitchcock's work.
The speech was also seen as a stand against the Soviet Union because it stated the firm intention of the United States to maintain a military presence in Europe indefinitely.
One of Louis ' avowed Crusade goals was to journey in pilgrimage to Jerusalem and he stated his intention to continue.
Eiji Tsuburaya had a stated intention to move the Godzilla series in a lighter direction.
Brzezinski has stated that the United States provided communications equipment and limited financial aid to the mujahideen prior to the " formal " invasion, but only in response to the Soviet deployment of forces to Afghanistan and the 1978 coup, and with the intention of preventing further Soviet encroachment in the region.
It further stated the United States ' intention to stay neutral in European wars and wars between European powers and their colonies, but to consider new colonies or interference with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States.
Von Trier has stated he was inspired to make a trilogy about the United States as a reaction to Americans at the Cannes film festival who said he had no right to make the Dancer in the Dark, which was often viewed as being critical of a country he has never been to ( and has no intention of ever visiting, due to his phobia of travel ); however, von Trier himself has stated in interviews he did not intend it to be a criticism of America, saying the film takes place in a " fictional America ".
The legislation stated " Whosoever shall brew ale in the town with intention of selling it must hang out a sign, otherwise he shall forfeit his ale.
In his stated intention to increase defense spending while lowering taxes, Reagan's approach was a departure from his immediate predecessors.
The stated intention is to have them both buried in mainland China once political differences are resolved.
U. S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie met with Saddam in an emergency meeting on 25 July 1990, where the Iraqi leader stated his intention to give negotiations only ... one more brief chance before forcing Iraq's claims on Kuwait.
" The name alluded to Moon's stated intention for his organization to be a unifying force for all Christian denominations.
For some time, SGI hosted a kernel tree which included the DMAPI hooks, but this support has not been adequately maintained, though kernel developers stated an intention to bring it up to date.
* March 20 – The United East India Company is established by the United Provinces States-General in Amsterdam, with the stated intention of capturing the spice trade from the Portuguese.
However Prost has also stated that he has no intention of racing at the famous Le Mans 24 Hours sportscar race held annually near Le Mans, France due to concerns about the skill and experience of other drivers along the nature of the multiple class racing that occurs at Le Mans, a factor that was supported by Scotsman and two time LeMans winner Allan McNish's horror crash in the Audi R18 in the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.
If Stravinsky's stated intention was " to send them all to hell ", then he may have rated the 1913 premiere of The Rite of Spring as a success: it is a famous classical music riot and Stravinsky referred to it on several occasions in his autobiography as a " scandale ".< ref > Stravinsky 1936
In his report, Washington stated, " The French had swept south ", detailing the steps they had taken to fortify the area, and their intention to fortify the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers.
Director James Cameron stated his intention to film the two sequels to his film Avatar at a higher frame rate than 24 frames per second, in order to add a heightened sense of reality.
In the context of the Council's stated intentionto develop the doctrine of recent popes on the inviolable rights of the human person and the constitutional order of society ”, Dignitatis Humanae spells out the Church's support for the protection of religious liberty.
A website entitled The Monkey Shakespeare Simulator, launched on July 1, 2003, contained a Java applet that simulates a large population of monkeys typing randomly, with the stated intention of seeing how long it takes the virtual monkeys to produce a complete Shakespearean play from beginning to end.
She spoke of her ambition to study psychiatry, and also stated her intention to compete in the " Miss Washington " pageant in 1960, but before she could follow either course of action, Paul Tate was transferred to Italy, taking his family with him.
He began an initiative called Operation Soft Drill — a name which reporter Declan McCullagh wrote was created by Bell — with the stated intention of intimidating police and corporate polluters into respecting human rights.

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