Word: blinks
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...Blink, and you would have missed it. Early Saturday morning on the Charles River, the Harvard men’s lightweight crew team finished .05 seconds—less time than the blink of an eye—behind Dartmouth to lose the Biglin Bowl for the second time in three years. Despite the varsity eight’s close loss, the team performed strongly as a whole, winning three of the day’s five races. Additionally, the varsity eight, novice eight, and second novice eight all handily defeated MIT, as the Engineers finished at a distant third...
...particular product (as in kickback). Orthopedists are hardly the only doctors paid by medical companies, but when the sheer amount of money being given to orthopedists came out of the shade into the sharp San Francisco sunshine last week, it did make quite a few of us blink...
What's palpable at Boss is a forward motion so fast you can feel it. Year-on-year growth is at 15%, which Slzer equates to the growth of Shanghai, where you blink and another skyscraper has gone up. "You can feel the growth, [whereas] a 5% growth in a brand or a city is more organic," he says, pointing to tonight's audience, which is full of youthful faces. "If you grow, you hire mostly young people, and if you don't grow, your company looks older...
...Harvard down, as the margin dwindled to a tie at 18.“In the fourth game we let up a little bit,” Weintraub said. “We didn’t realize what was happening fast enough.”Indeed, in the blink of an eye the Trojans built a 21-18 lead and did not look back. Despite fighting hard to bring the score to 29-28, like much of Harvard’s effort it proved to be too little, too late. Mount Olive’s Noel Garcia, the match...
...major new survey presents perhaps the most detailed picture we've yet had of which religious groups Americans belong to. And its big message is: blink and they'll change. For the first time, a large-scale study has quantified what many experts suspect: there is a constant membership turnover among most American faiths. America's religious culture, which is best known for its high participation rates, may now be equally famous (or infamous) for what the new report dubs "churn...