Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

Fifty of the 100 firms were selected on a random basis from 3,500 names submitted by member companies of the Aerospace Industries Association ( AIA list ) and fifty were selected in a similar manner from a list of 1,500 names compiled by the research team from the Thomas Register ( TR list ).

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

Other lettermen from the team that compiled a 21-9 record and finished as runner-up in the National Invitation Tournament were: Art Hambric, Donnell Reid, Bill Nordmann, Dave Harris, Dave Luechtefeld and George Latinovich.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

Well led by Allan Border, the team included the young cricketers Mark Taylor, Merv Hughes, David Boon, Ian Healy and Steve Waugh, who were all to prove long-serving and successful Ashes competitors.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

There were many more people involved in the Oxford team, and at one point the entire Dunn School was involved in its production.

( The Green Bay Packers were an independent team until they joined the NFL in 1921 ).

Other less commonly used nicknames were the " Gridbirds " ( used only by a local newspaper columnist ) or " Cardiac Cards " ( used only to refer to the 1975 team ).

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

Colangelo sold his interest in the General Partnership of the Diamondbacks to a group of investors who were all involved as partners in the founding of the team in 1995.

However, these negotiations came to nothing, since the Bidwills insisted on retaining a controlling interest in the franchise and were unwilling move their team to a city where a previous NFL franchise had failed in 1952.

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

At the October 2006 Conservative Conference, she was Chief Dragon in a political version of the television programme Dragons ' Den, in which A-list candidates were invited to put forward a policy proposal, which was then torn apart by her team of Rachel Elnaugh, Oliver Letwin and Michael Brown.

The town is famed for manufacturing the hardest and densest building bricks in the world, " The Accrington NORI " ( iron ), which were used in the construction of the Empire State Building and for the foundations of Blackpool Tower ; famous for its football team and for having Europe's largest collection of Tiffany Glass.

The Baltimore Orioles of the 1970s, led by manager Earl Weaver, were an example of such a " slugging " team that aspired to score most of its runs via home runs.

The first team to play baseball under modern rules were the New York Knickerbockers.

The German authorities apparently assured Lalkin that extra security would be provided to look after the Israeli team, but Lalkin doubts that these additional measures were ever taken.

As the leading athlete in the Netherlands — in 1947 she won national titles in 6 events — Blankers-Koen was assured of a place on the Dutch team for the first post-war Olympics, held at Wembley Stadium in west London.

Under the original playoff format, it was possible, though thoroughly unlikely, that the runner-up would not qualify for Europe ; the following year, the format was changed so that the second-place team was assured of no worse than a UEFA Cup berth.

( Lenihan had assured his campaign team that he had said nothing in the interview that could cause problems.

Ballard's team did not have much time to explore, as others were waiting to take Knorr on other scientific pursuits, but his fame was now assured.

When Australia arrived for the 1993 Ashes series, Atherton's place in the team was not assured.

Cwmbrân's place in history is assured as the first ever team to be champions of, and later first to be relegated from the League of Wales.

The Assam Rifles team assured the villagers that from now on this virgin land will be under India and the people will be protected from any enemy aggression.

Owens later said that Jerry Jones had assured him that he would be remaining with the team and that he was blindsided by his release.

His future in the Australian team following the rapprochement between WSC and official cricket seemed assured.

Ganguly's place in the team was assured after successful performances in series against Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia, winning the Man of the Match awards.

With assured qualification to the knockout stage, as first in group A, they played with the reserve team against Switzerland, and lost 2 – 0, with two Hakan Yakın goals.

This all but assured his election as team president that November.

During the 2006 season, he was offered a place in the BMW Sauber Formula One team, but declined on discovering he would not be assured a regular drive.

In North American sports, " running up the score " occurs when a team continues to play in such a way as to score additional points after the outcome of the game is no longer in question and the team is assured of winning.

A management buyout can also be attractive for the seller as he can be assured that the future stand-alone company will have a dedicated management team thus providing a substantial downside risk against failure and hence negative press.

The victory assured Arsenal an undefeated league season, which resulted in the club becoming the second first division team in English football history to finish a league season unbeaten.

Hammons built the ballpark before he had a minor league team secured to play in the stadium, though he steadfastly assured local residents it would be the Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Delaney assured the Irish public that a " world class " management team would be appointed to oversee Ireland's qualification campaign for the 2008 European Championship.

It is said that when he came out of retirement to play for the North Stars he was assured that, as Minnesota was in the central part of the continent, the team traveled less than any other in the league.

When Graham Taylor took over the reins at Villa, Samuel became more assured of a place on the team despite his nervousness on the pitch.

However, in 2004 – 05, Samuel's place in the team was less assured due to a severe lack of options in the squad rather than his own form as he soon began to look like the player he had been earlier on in his career-nervous and indecisive on the ball.

O ’ Malley assured the PCL owners that he intended to operate the Angels as a PCL team as had the Wrigleys.