Word: bigger
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While Dawkins and his teammates move on to deal with bigger and better things, namely Maryland and North Carolina, the Crimson returns to the Battle of the Ivy League 1983-84, the title that nobody wanted...
...just need another, bigger miracle to repeat this year...
Nevertheless to Lewis, the fall's various developments are not unrelated. "I think they're all part of something bigger," she says. "There's clearly a general change--that's been in the growing stages for a long time and is only now bearing fruit--as far as making Harvard belong to women...
Members of the group on the diet alone reduced their cholesterol levels by around 4%, but levels in the men who also received the drug fell by 18% to 25%, with the sharpest decline coming in the first year of treatment. Analyzing the findings, researchers found that the bigger the drop in cholesterol, the lower the incidence of both fatal and nonfatal heart attacks. When the cholesterol level was reduced by 25%, the risk of heart disease was cut by 50%. The group on medication also had 20% fewer episodes of angina and 21% fewer coronary-bypass operations to restore...
Unterberg likes to sign up a company well before it goes public in the hope that he can continue to underwrite subsequent stock offerings as it gets bigger. When Cray Research, a Minneapolis-based maker of scientific computers, went public in 1976, Rothschild earned a fee of $150,000 on the $9.9 million issue. Cray has since sold an additional $63 million worth of stock through Rothschild-led syndicates and generated $500,000 in additional fees for Unterberg's firm...