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...digital cameras, Oxyride can't hold a candle to Energizer's disposable e2 lithium battery, which delivered 3,107 digital shots to Oxyride's 990 according to the results of a comparative test in the June issue of POPULAR SCIENCE. But Panasonic is banking that most people will balk at paying $10 for a four-pack of lithium batteries when they can get a four-pack of Oxyrides...
Experts agree. Americans consume 10 billion bowls of soup each year, but virtually all at home. While other chains offer soup, few have focused on it as a meal in itself, says Harry Balzer of the NPD Group. Will customers balk at the prices? The 12-oz. SoupMan containers typically sell for $5 to $7. "People just expect soup to be inexpensive," he says...
Economics concentrators might balk at the idea of writing a close-reading paper for a Literature and Arts A course (close reading exercises may seem, to them, the equivalent of a problem set), chemistry concentrators may very well abhor their Moral Reasoning exams, but practicing writing, it seems to me, is always practical. Expos, in theory, prepares every Harvard student for four years of academic writing, and these early lessons are borne out through the undergraduate years, as most students will write a paper of some sort each semester...
...current underclassmen to have the choice between completing their general education curriculum through Core requirements or distributional alternatives). Any hesitation or retreat on this issue will translate only to more generations of Harvard College students encumbered by the same antiquated regime of general education. There is no reason to balk now: ultimately the decision about general education requirements (like most other curricular review decisions) is in the hands of the Faculty, a group that will remain largely unchanged between now and the autumn, and whose discretion and prudence are even-handed enough to finalize this issue in the coming months...
Then in 1998 the U.S. firm Hoffmann--La Roche agreed to pay $200 million for the right to develop drugs based on some of deCODE's data. The idea that a foreign company might profit from their personal information made many Icelanders balk. A woman named Ragnhildur Gudmundsdottir sued to keep her deceased father's medical records from going into the deCODE-run database, citing a right to privacy, and in 2003 Iceland's supreme court ruled in her favor...