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...goal from junior Alexander Popp. Popp made 11 saves in his second start of the tournament.But Harvard was stung by a commanding performance from the Rams’ Ali Arat, who proved to be a single-handed force with seven scores.“I think we failed to adjust to [Fordham’s] style of offense,” Atkinson said. “They have one very dominant player and we didn’t do a good job of neutralizing him.”NO. 16 SANTA CLARA 18, HARVARD 6The Broncos came out strong...
...crimes, small and large. His wife Judy (Sari Lennick) has become close with family friend Sy Ableman (Fred Melamed); she wants Sy to move in and Larry to stay at the Jolly Roger. Larry and Judith's son (Aaron Wolff) is slumming through Hebrew school and harangues Dad to adjust the rooftop TV aerial so F Troop can come in clearly. Their daughter (Jessica McManus) thinks only getting a nose job and washing her hair, which she can't do nearly enough of because Larry's live-in, layabout brother (Richard Kind) spends a lot of time in the bathroom...
...lost job should have had little effect beyond his immediate family. One lost job is a microscopic event in the massive organism of the U.S. economy. In good times, America sheds 2.5 million jobs a month but creates nearly 3 million new ones. Rolling unemployment allows businesses to adjust to demand, improving efficiency and fueling growth. A healthy economy compensates job losers by creating new jobs for them. America's economic athleticism has been the envy of other countries, a key to its success...
...medical treatments and rising patient expectations. The result is often a clash of cultures. A former analyst at A.T. Kearney, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure clause in his contract, recounted the reaction of senior British health officials when he suggested that they adjust for increases in pharmaceutical costs by upping the fee patients pay for prescription drugs by the equivalent of $1.60. Most British citizens currently pay around $12 for prescriptions...
...year until 2011, rising costs would lead to a real-terms reduction in funding of some $15 billion over that period. "More with less" may be the management consultant's old adage, but with health-care systems around the globe under strain, citizens and politicians alike may have to adjust their expectations of what constitutes affordable health care. As Niall Dickson, chief executive of the King's Fund, recently told the BBC, "Doing less with less seems a more realistic scenario...