Word: breaking
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...with its own rescue plan for its ailing carmakers. But unlike Washington, which is providing billions of dollars to prop up the balance sheets of the Detroit giants, China is taking a different route: it's trying to get consumers to buy more cars through a sales tax break and targeted subsidies for rural buyers...
...already snooty House—so exclusive it actually has a security guard protect its meager Brain Break offerings from the encroaching masses—appears to be outdoing itself...
Senior guard Drew Housman and freshman guard Oliver McNally each had 10 points as Harvard shot 12-of-20 from the floor after the break after a rough 12-of-32 performance in the first half. On the other end, an excellent Crimson defense held the visitors to just 38.7 percent field goal shooting after the break...
After the lead went back-and-forth early on in the second half, a jumper from the foul line by Wright gave his team a 37-35 lead with just over minutes gone since the break. The Crimson would not give this lead up as it kick-started a 21-6 run over the next eight minutes, as stifling Harvard defense forced five turnovers in that stretch as the home team pulled away...
...while most will ritually eschew contact with Hamas, they are well aware that cleaning up the humanitarian mess left by Israel's incursion and rebuilding Gaza will require reaching a modus vivendi with the organization, whose popularity among Palestinians continues to grow. Ironically, perhaps, a military campaign to break Hamas' grip on Gaza may, instead, have forced many of Israel's allies to recognize the futility of efforts to topple the organization through military and economic pressure. (View images of life under Hamas in Gaza...