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...batch of 19-year-olds on the water today.”Heavily-favored Washington, featuring not only an Olympian but also members of the German and Canadian under-23 teams, jumped out to an early lead in the freshman eight grand final and never looked back. Thus the bulk of the drama involved the fight for the second place, as the field remained even for the first 300 meters. The Crimson got off to an unfavorable start, finding itself in dead last after 500 meters, but it then began to challenge for a medal.“Looked like...
...during the financial crisis of 1997-98 to a record 47% in 2007. And recent research by the International Monetary Fund shows that Asian exports continue to be underpinned by demand from consumers in the industrial world - especially from the U.S. Despite a surge of trade within Asia, the bulk of these intraregional flows have been concentrated in parts and components that go into finished goods eventually consumed by developed economies...
Still, there is inevitably a global dimension to tracking bulk rates. "It's the price for moving raw materials, which sit at the beginning of the production chain," Penn explains. "We can say that the complete lockup of world trade we saw at the end of last year has eased considerably." Penn concludes that his index "is useful to look at, but it's not the holy grail...
...health benefits in recent rounds of negotiations. There is also the inconvenient fact that Obama attacked John McCain in last year's election for proposing exactly such a tax on something workers believe they get for free. Still, Baucus says, "Not all those benefits should be tax-free. The bulk should be tax-free, but not all of them. That's part of the solution." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...After the University learned that the endowment had fallen a precipitous 22 percent in December, Smith devoted the bulk of the two subsequent Faculty meetings to explaining the looming budgetary shortfall with powerpoints and hand-written figures—a function that professors came to expect in their dean...