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...cruise-control hit a bit of a speed bump in the second frame as the Red Foxes grabbed a 12-10 lead. Harvard immediately responded by running off eight consecutive points to open up a six-point lead...
...Tuesday, Dr. Richard Ma, who examined Pring-Wilson the morning after his arrest when he complained of a headache, testified that the defendant’s CT scan was normal, but that Pring-Wilson had a bump on the head and a possible concussion...
...Even after it unfurls its parachute-like parafoil and begins coasting toward the Utah desert, it will be heading for a thudding 22m.p.h. touchdown, enough to damage the collector plates, particularly if the ship has already been dinged by micrometeorites. An ocean splashdown would cause only a marginally smaller bump and would present a further risk of water contamination...
Their predatory prowess notwithstanding, big cats were not born to be man eaters--mostly because they were never intended to bump up against humans. But take them out of the wild and into civilization, and bad things will happen, as a handful of messy recent episodes have shown...
...years, savers who have been stressing over paltry yields on cash investments are partying in response to the Fed's quarter-point interest-rate hike last month. The federal-funds rate now stands at 1.25%, but the really good news for yield-hungry investors is that the bump may be just the beginning of a slow and steady climb that could leave us at 2% by the end of the year and at 3.5% by the end of 2005. Yields on cash and investments people use as cash stand-ins--bank accounts, money markets, short-term Treasury bills...