Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After two miles, an unusually large pack consisting of almost 20 runners led the field. No one seemed willing to break open the pack and set himself up. "It's like being thrown to the wolves if you try to take the lead in a situation like that," McNulty said following the meet...
...constant hazing by upperclassmen, with whom they are never allowed to fraternize. They rise with bugle and bell calls at 6:15 a.m. for a 6:30 breakfast formation, and taps sound at 11 p.m. Once during the school year they are allowed to leave campus--at Christmas break. Cadets of the opposite sex are allowed in the barracks rooms during the day, but only if the door is ajar. Not surprisingly, the dropout rate during plebe year is one-fourth to one-third, Lt. Col. Miguel E. Monteverde, spokesman for the academy, admits...
After the meetings, partners break for business lunches with company representatives, other investment managers, faculty members, and other sources. "We do a lot of traveling," Cabot says. "We never invest in a company that we haven't first called on, and talked to the senior management and the competitors...
...strategies that have served HMC well so far and that have given Harvard its "aura" depend on optimistic expectations that the American economy will eventually break out of the "inflationary psychology of buying today because it will be more expensive tomorrow," Cabot says. The University invests more heavily in the energy and capital goods industries that thrive in the strong industrial economy Harvard is betting...
...even though the Harvard booters lost, they were not beaten. Rather, the Minuteman got one more break...