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What Association Executives Can Learn From St. Louis Cardinals

SCD Group

Louis Cardinals celebrate beating Washington Nationals in Game 5 of NLDS. With a 2-out, 6-run come-from-behind win over the Washington Nationals in the 2012 baseball playoffs, the St. Louis Cardinals rekindled images of their improbably 2-out, 2-strike come-from-behind Game 7 win to capture the 2011 World Series.

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50 Things That Shaped Our World in 1969

Association Adviser

250,000 protesters march on Washington against the Vietnam War. In 2004, the team moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. On February 9, the first Boeing 747 jumbo jet takes off from a Boeing field in Everett, Washington and flies to New York City. Sports: The Montreal Canadiens defeat the St.

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Meetings, Destinations Get Ready for Solar Eclipse

Associations Now

I hadn’t thought about that sides of things myself, until I came across an article in The Washington Post this week about how the Little League World Series is going to handle the eclipse, which will pass through its Williamsport, Pennsylvania, complex a little after 1 p.m. Explore St. Louis has a list of events on its website.

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ASAE Installs New Officers and Directors for Fiscal Year 2021 to Begin September 1st

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WASHINGTON— New officers and directors for the ASAE and ASAE Research Foundation Board of Directors were installed during ASAE’s Virtual Annual Meeting & Exposition held August 10-12. Irving Washington, FASAE, CAE. Washington, DC. American College of Nurse-Midwives. Silver Spring, MD. Lynne Thomas Gordon, CAE.

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More Evidence of Media Bias

SCD Group

In 2013, the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, a Washington, D.C.-based During a 100-plus degree day in St. Louis in 1980, I received a call from a reporter at the local ABC television station. I suggested to my news editor that we do a story that the Midwestern drought has not yet hit the St.

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Obama Military-Surplus Rule Change Draws Mixed Response

Associations Now

The FOP is the most aggressive law enforcement advocacy group in Washington, and we will be at our most aggressive in asserting the need for officer safety and officer rights in any police changes that are to be effected,” FOP Executive Director James Pasco told Politico on Monday. Louis area, as well as the Urban League of Metropolitan St.

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Media Groups Condemn Arrest of Reporters During Ferguson Protests

Associations Now

As locals and police continued to clash in a small St. Louis suburb this week, two journalists on the scene were taken into police custody for reasons that remain unclear. Louis County police officer. And a photographer from the St. Media associations objected loudly.