Word: bigs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have been home sweet home for the Dartmouth ski team, but the Big Green didn’t seem to care, as it won its relocated home carnival by over 50 points, leaving ninth-place Harvard far back in its snowy wake in Stowe...
Meanwhile, the battle at the top remained between Dartmouth and University of Vermont, who traded events throughout the weekend. Middlebury, who finished third, managed to sneak in a victory in the men’s 3x5k freestyle relay, but it finished almost 200 points behind the league juggernaut Big Green, which could go undefeated for the second season...
...Syracuse, New York to an Italian mother and a Brazilian father, has always identified with black culture. The artist will turn 80 on April 29—“It’s the same date as the birthday of Duke Ellington. I’m a big fan of jazz,” Tambellini says. He grew up with his mom and his brother in a working class area of Lucca, a town in Tuscany. At age three he started painting (“I was born an artist,” he says...
...Wall Street is lobbying furiously to try to block the CFPA, and Republican congressional leaders have denounced the idea as big-government overreach that would harm consumers by stifling innovation - especially if bank basher (and TARP watchdog) Elizabeth Warren, the intellectual godmother of the agency, gets to run it. Some finance-friendly Democrats have been resistant as well. The new agency was included in the financial reforms the House of Representatives passed along party lines in December, but it has been a stumbling block as the Senate has struggled to put together a bipartisan bill, and even the House version...
...their credit histories, higher requirements for their down payments and other borrowing restrictions that might have helped save them from their own bad instincts. In any case, it's hard to imagine how the subprime crisis would have metastasized into a financial collapse if banks hadn't been so big, interconnected, complex and overleveraged - problems that had little to do with consumer protection. (See 25 people who mattered...