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...always a work in progress, and we try to adjust in response to feedback from the students,” he said...
Senior U.S. military officials will likely advise Barack Obama to adjust his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq by mid-2010. While promising a 16-month timetable for getting all U.S. fighting forces out, Obama repeatedly insisted on what he calls a "responsible" withdrawal. Pulling nearly all U.S. troops and equipment out of Iraq in 16 months is "physically impossible," says a top officer involved in briefing the President-elect on U.S. operations in Iraq. That schedule would create a bottleneck of equipment and troops in the south of Iraq and Kuwait where brigades repair, clean...
Auto executives, though braced for hard times, were clearly stunned by the latest data. "If you adjust for population growth, this is probably the worst industry-sales month in the post-World War II era," says Mark LaNeve, vice president of sales for General Motors, the nation's largest carmaker, which reported a 45% drop in sales. "In my 27 years, I never saw a month like this. It was like somebody turned out the lights." Mike DiGiovanni, GM executive director of market analysis, says that in absolute numbers, sales of 851,000 units in October were the lowest since...
...discourage innovation. She is willing to take risks and change course when certain strategies seem to leave Harvard stagnant. While the Crimson dominated nearly all of its competition last season, during those seven minutes against Wisconsin, Harvard seemed overwhelmed by the Badgers’ speed and was unable to adjust to the pace of the game until it was too late...
...When I would go on the ice, every time, I would be playing for the people who were my teammates rather than just playing for my own purposes.”It was tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, a French-speaking native of Quebec, who really helped Ryabkina adjust to both the Crimson game and the Harvard way of life. “[Vaillancourt] played a huge role not just on the ice, hockey-wise, but in my everyday life too…She understands me in the way that I’m not a regular U.S. person who knows...