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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...singles matches, freshman Sophie Chang lost, 6-0, 6-4, to put the Crimson at a 2-0 deficit, but No. 115 Tachibana quickly pulled her team back within one point with a victory of her own, 6-4, 6-1. Tachibana is now 7-3 at No. 2 this season...
...close the contest, Rosekrans battled back from an opening set 6-3 loss to take the second set 6-4. But in her super tie-break, feeling tired on the burning tennis court, she succumbed to a 10-6 loss...
...meticulous in what they do. And the coffee they produce is as much an improvement over Starbucks and its rivals as Starbucks was over Taster's Choice. Stumptown didn't make a movement by itself. There's Intelligentsia in Chicago and Counter Culture in North Carolina, and as far back as the 1980s, some roasters, like David Dallis of Dallis Coffee, were seeking to import beans from single farms, roasting them less rather than more and generally doing the things that separate this movement from its Seattle-based progenitors in the '70s. (See pictures of Italian coffee...
...same could have been said about cheese and wine and meat 20 years ago. And you can have a Stumptown or like-minded artisanal coffee for $2, way less than a Venti Mocha Latte. (Stumptown also offers espresso drinks such as cappuccinos, macchiatos, etc.) Which brings us back to Starbucks. (See pictures of what the world eats...
...owned about $2,000 worth of stock in the company, grilled senior management for several minutes about the company's minuscule dividends and opaque ownership. When he finished, there was a brief silence and then an unexpected burst of applause from a small group of shareholders in the back of the hall. The company directors were visibly flustered, said a Russian journalist present at the meeting. "They clearly weren't accustomed to being asked questions like that," the journalist said on condition of anonymity, citing company policy about speaking to other media. "They looked really uncomfortable...