Despite the cries of foul from the United States and other nations, China and Singapore have excelled at finding opportunities for government-industry tag teams to encourage investment and growth, with the result being an era of economic vitality in both countries.

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The effect of this new provision, which was strongly pushed by the NFL in its negotiations with the NFLPA, is to create a couple of advantages for NFL teams: (1) the Tag numbers will be lower, pulling from a more dated pool of numbers, and (2) teams can now use the Tag designation as a greater leverage point in negotiations that is stronger than it was previously.

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At the least, the union should be able to wrangle some concessions about the Tag, making its application less of a hammer in allowing teams to go year-to-year with players.

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