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...bubbling and extracting better margins," Wood says. Wood and other analysts--including those at Goldman Sachs, which recently added Nestle to its list of recommended stocks--believe that Nestle could outperform its rivals in the next few years precisely because the company has so much room to improve its bottom line...
...bottom line: the global oil supply has probably peaked. While the world expects to consume 120 million bbl. a day two decades from now, actual supply may be half that rate. This conclusion aptly portrays the potential magnitude of the energy ditch we are now in. It is impossible to calculate the odds of this supply-demand imbalance happening, but prudent planning argues that the world should assume the bleaker scenario. Then it follows that a global plan to use oil more rationally must be urgently developed and implemented...
...without a world championship. Harvard, meanwhile, has struggled to define its new undergraduate curriculum and has not seen the top of its own league’s standings (at least in U.S. News and World Report) in a couple of years. Annual student satisfaction surveys unerringly place it near-bottom compared to peer schools. It bears asking, then: Have we and the Yanks suffered the same fate? When only perfection is enough, is failure inevitable...
...sixth-place selection this time, neither the pressure nor the bull’s-eye are there.“We’re looking to come out and surprise a lot of people,” Lin says. “Most polls have us in the bottom half—sixth, seventh, eighth. We like that, we like being underdogs; we’re just looking forward to surprising a lot of people.”The pressure this year is on Cornell, Yale, and Columbia, three teams not used to high expectations. Last year, Yale...
...gross directorial misstep, Stern makes McCabe physically run from spot to spot on Matt McAdon’s bare-bones set. At one moment, he’s lying down in a therapy session at the bottom-right corner of the stage. But before the therapist finishes her last sentence, Donnie is forced to jog to the upper-left corner to have a quiet romantic moment with his new girlfriend...