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...lightweight racing, the Crimson took a backseat to Princeton. The varsity eight finished third and the four-entry took fourth in races that were both won by the Tigers...
Take StreetFusion, a Web-based financial-information company in San Francisco, founded in August 1997. In October 1997, the two twentysomething founders and their first employee were holding business meetings in the backseat of a car and using credit cards to make payroll. They realized they needed a more experienced executive team if they were going to make their business work. "We were beating our heads against brick walls," says Blake Hayunga, that first employee, who's now vice president of content. "We'd have these meetings where we'd talk about how we were going to take Bloomberg...
...strategic concerns, and that is why the U.S.'s efforts to increase oil output, led by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, have taken the form of persuasion rather than threat. "The reason is that in the U.S.'s relationship with a number of oil-producing countries, economics takes a backseat to politics," says TIME senior business writer Bernard Baumohl. After all, OPEC and its allies are engaging in price-fixing that contravenes World Trade Organization rules, but there's been no rush by Washington to file suit. "Last year the administration was prepared to fight a trade war with Europe over...
...once. He clarifies that the money is not a proposition but a request to restrain his sometimes wandering eyes from the rearview mirror. "They tell me, 'Just drive around.' But I say, 'No way.'" Carlos assumes there are other cab drivers who don't care about sex in the backseat, and take the money...
...battlefield, and we most certainly do not go after their families. An imperfect record notwithstanding, we respect human rights. And we attach value to the individual life. Although we might have a better military if we lost our national conscience, we properly insist that fighting power take a backseat to certain fundamental, defining values of our country...