Crime rates and trends, S In February 2007 after more than a year of negotiations Time Warner agreed to a deal to sell the Braves to Liberty Media which owned a large amount of stock in Time Warner pending approval by 75 percent of MLB owners and the Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig the deal included the exchange of the Braves valued in the deal at $450 million a hobbyist magazine publishing company and $980 million cash for 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock held by Liberty worth approximately $1.48 billion Team President Terry McGuirk anticipated no change in the front office structure personnel or day-to-day operations of the Braves and Liberty did not participate in day-to-day operations on May 16 2007 Major League Baseball's owners approved the sale the Braves are one of only two Major League Baseball teams under majority corporate ownership (and the only NL team with this distinction); the other team is the Toronto Blue Jays (owned by Canadian media conglomerate Rogers Communications), Railways contribute to social vibrancy and economic competitiveness by transporting multitudes of customers and workers to city centres and inner suburbs Hong Kong has recognized rail as "the backbone of the public transit system" and as such developed their franchised bus system and road infrastructure in comprehensive alignment with their rail services China's large cities such as Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou recognize rail transit lines as the framework and bus lines as the main body to their metropolitan transportation systems the Japanese Shinkansen was built to meet the growing traffic demand in the "heart of Japan's industry and economy" situated on the Tokyo-Kobe line. During the 1960s and 1970s Georgia made significant changes in civil rights and governance As in many other states its legislature had not reapportioned congressional districts according to population from 1931 to after the 1960 census Problems of malapportionment in the state legislature where rural districts had outsize power in relation to urban districts such as Atlanta's were corrected after the US Supreme Court ruling in Wesberry v Sanders (1964) the court ruled that congressional districts had to be reapportioned to have essentially equal populations. .
16 Brian McCann Injury icon 2.svg 1.1 Native American settlements Despite their highly technical backgrounds Tech graduates are no strangers to the arts or athletic competition Among them comedian/actor Jeff Foxworthy of Blue Collar Comedy Tour fame and Randolph Scott both called Tech home Several famous athletes have as well; about 150 Tech students have gone into the National Football League (NFL) with many others going into the National Basketball Association (NBA) or Major League Baseball (MLB) Well-known American football athletes include all-time greats such as Joe Hamilton Pat Swilling Billy Shaw and Joe Guyon former Tech head football coaches Pepper Rodgers and Bill Fulcher and recent students such as Calvin Johnson and Tashard Choice Some of Tech's recent entrants into the NBA include Josh Okogie Chris Bosh Derrick Favors Thaddeus Young Jarrett Jack and Iman Shumpert Award-winning baseball stars include Kevin Brown Mark Teixeira Nomar Garciaparra and Jason Varitek in golf Tech alumni include the legendary Bobby Jones who founded the Masters and David Duval who was ranked the No 1 golfer in the world in 1999. From 2009 to 2016 overall crime in Atlanta declined 27 percent "with sharp declines in burglaries (9,102 in 2009 to 4,377 in 2016) robberies (2,622 to 1,914) and aggravated assaults (2,602 to 2,179).", 6.7 Ford C Frick Award recipients (broadcasters), ? ? ? ? ? ? Province of Georgia proprietary colony established 1732 crown colony from 1752. 1.5 Diesel power introduced, Lebanon (1), Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (part) 12 Alex Jackson; ! 2.9 Rolling stock Atlanta Georgia business directory, 1.3.8 2009: the return of solid pitching, A circular six-story brick building with decorative white concrete stripes above and below lines of adjacent square windows that encircle most of each level. Atlanta Braves Baseball MLB SunTrust Park (41,500) 1871 1966 3 (1914 1957 1995), Joe Kelley, Amtrak has argued that it needs to increase capital program costs in 2013 in order to replace old train equipment because the multi-year maintenance costs for those trains exceeds what it would cost to simply buy new equipment that would not need to be repaired for several years However despite an initial request for more than $2.1 billion in funding for the year the company had to deal with a year-over-year cut in 2013 federal appropriations dropping to under $1.4 billion for the first time in several years Amtrak stated in 2010 that the backlog of needed repairs of the track it owns on the Northeast Corridor included over 200 bridges most dating to the 19th century tunnels under Baltimore dating to the American Civil War era and functionally obsolete track switches which would cost $5.2 billion to repair (more than triple Amtrak's total annual budget) Amtrak's budget is only allocated on a yearly basis and it has been argued by Joseph Vranich that this makes multi-year development programs and long-term fiscal planning difficult if not impossible.[page needed]. .
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