Word: bottomly
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...this year, don’t let the hardwood intrigues pass you by. Penn is still the team to beat, Princeton will be tough to dispatch, and Cornell and Yale are talented up-and-comers, while Harvard is trying to avoid slipping into the bottom half once again...
...ingrained culture of corruption, secrecy and state intervention. The government recently enacted extensive new laws covering enterprise, investment and securities, which would boost protection for private businesses and increase transparency. Still, it will take time to train thousands of bureaucrats to apply rules fairly. The country ranks in the bottom third of Transparency International's corruption index; a recent government inspection of state ministries uncovered 1,700 graft cases in the first nine months of this year. Some investors grumble the government is still apt to make sudden changes in taxes, for instance, without notice. "Information is a big issue...
...home turf, but other than that it has been all Quakers.Before the Ryan Fitzpatrick era, the squad had not won since 1980 at Franklin.Despite Penn’s lackluster record, there is something about the field and atmosphere that prevents strong play.Whether or not the curse exists Harvard, the bottom line is: the Crimson did not play well Saturday.Wrought with turnovers—a total of four, plus a safety—the offense could not move the ball in the second half. Junior quarterback Liam O’Hagan managed just 13 yards in the air after the break...
...that Ratan Tata finds the rich uninteresting--after all he's one of them. No, it's more the case that he finds the opportunities to be richer at the bottom end of the consumer universe. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 69-year-old at his office in Bombay House, the Tata group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets...
What really excites Tata is his ability to combine the group's philanthropic heritage with modern business sense. Targeting the bottom of the income pyramid ticks both boxes. Tata points out that consumption, as it is understood in the West, is still a dream for all but a fraction of 3 billion people in the developing world. Only 58 million Indians, out of the country's 1.1 billion population, earn more than $4,400 a year, according to New Delhi's National Council of Applied Economic Research. The challenge is to make consumers out of people whose disposable income...