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...adjusted to give bonus points for beating teams with high RPI, so a win against a highly ranked team like Brown could be a great boon for the Crimson’s postseason prospects...
...Politically, this wave of economic euphoria has been a huge boon to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. He boasted frequently about the buoyant economy during his successful campaign to win re-election two weeks ago as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (and, thus, Prime Minister). As he tells it, the healthier statistics are proof that his structural economic reforms are working. As a sign of the increasing political capital that the rebound has provided him, Koizumi quickly shuffled his Cabinet, reappointing his controversial finance czar Heizo Takenaka and replacing the ailing 81-year-old Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa with...
Inge-Lise Ameer, the undergraduate program administrator for the English department, cited a Harvard-run program which takes children on field trips during school vacation weeks as a special boon to working parents...
Redd and Gray’s participation in the pageant was a boon to the Miss America Organization, which in recent years has struggled to emphasize the competition’s role as a leading scholarship provider for young women, while still trying to boost the telecast’s flagging ratings...
...headache for Big Pharma. Not only are they expanding aggressively in the U.S. and Europe, they are also making inroads by challenging patents on some of the world's most profitable drugs so that inexpensive Indian alternatives become more widely available. The strategy is proving to be an unexpected boon to governments of developed and developing countries that are pushing to make cutting-edge drugs more affordable for their citizens...