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...just as quickly as the injury bug bit the Crimson, it can bite the Big Red or the Tigers. How vulnerable would Cornell be without Jeff Foote anchoring the paint? What would Princeton look like without Doug Davis running the point...

Author: By Timothy J. Walsh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hoop Dreams Hinge on Help | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...problem was that the "Toyota way" - in which knowledge accumulated by élite cadres of engineers and assembly workers over many years is shared across the company - was diluted by the demands of production. "Even in the late '90s, people in Toyota would say, 'This is going to bite us in the ass,' " says Spear. "They just didn't know when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toyota's Flawed Focus on Quantity Over Quality | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

...they might have. "It doesn't make sense," he continued, that if they told him, " 'You could do this cheaper and get increased results,' that I wouldn't say, 'Great.' " But the logic of this seemed to slip past the assembled legislators - and the "I am not an ideologue" bite became a derisive staple on Fox News. And therein lies the crisis of democracy that our country faces: a moderate-liberal President, willing to make judicious compromises, confronted by a Republican Party paralyzed by cynicism and hypocrisy, undergirded by inchoate ideological fervor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Calls Out GOP, but Nobody's Home | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

Learn about the transition from hunter-gatherers to an agricultural lifestyle. Take a bite of many different topics, like botany, zoology, history, and climatology in this course. It's only offered every other year, so catch it now. | M., W., (F.) 11. Link...

Author: By Julie R. Barzilay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shopping Week, Day Four: Me Want Food! | 1/27/2010 | See Source »

That's one common predicament. A few miles to the east, Bonney pointed out a dusty lot that represented another stage of real estate pain. The bank that financed the purchase of the lot had decided to bite the bullet and take possession of it rather than give the developer a construction loan for a building no one would occupy. There already was a newly constructed - and empty - building across the street. The bank that made the construction loan for that building would soon have to decide whether to "extend and pretend," as the industry saying goes, or take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Slow-Motion Wreck for Commercial Real Estate | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

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