Word: ascent
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...Crimson’s has been a quiet and unheralded ascent to the No. 1 spot. Though last year’s team was touted by Stone as the best she’d ever coached, Harvard rode a 14-week streak as the nation’s top team only to lose to Dartmouth in the ECAC championship game and in the national championship to Minnesota-Duluth...
With Japanese and U.S. technology battling it out at the top, the only hope for domestic carmakers without joint-venture partners is to capture the bottom end of the market, then begin the slow ascent up the price-and-sophistication ladder. That's the path chosen by BYD, the former bombmaker. The Flyer retails for about $4,700, making it affordable to the 50 million Chinese earning at least $7,000 a year, whom the government considers middle class. "Look around my office," says Liu, the BYD general manager. He has one dusty filing cabinet, bare whitewashed walls...
Post-FM we will all look forward to watching her rapid ascent in Boston politics. But that’s the distant future. The immediate future should be much more relaxed. After all, our 15 minutes...
...inexperienced and he may be susceptible to Russian efforts to instill a malleable atmosphere in Tbilisi. Given the economic incentive for Russia to exploit the region’s resources, and the security concerns in neighboring Chechnya, it seems unlikely that Russia will see Saakashvili’s ascent as any significant reason to change their oppressive policy toward the region. This makes it even more important for the United States to exercise leadership quickly, before Russia can browbeat another hopeful Georgian leader into submission...
Hornby, as you might have gathered, is the king of the mix-tape approach to music, which is on the rise again with the ascent of the iPod and the convenience of infinite playlists. The original hardcover edition of Songbook came with a Hornby mix CD featuring 11 tracks mentioned in the book...