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...late 1970s, when inflation was at times hitting double digits, colleges battled to hold their cost lines. Faculty salaries lost 20% of their purchasing power. New construction and debt service were deferred, while energy and maintenance costs skyrocketed. Now the bills are coming due. Faculties, for example, are getting catch-up raises averaging 7.2% across the nation...
...mental toughness wasn’t as strong as it needed to be,” Noon said. “We came out slow in a couple games and had to play catch...
...Rusch, this is the sweet spot of the ordeal, the day she falls into the rhythm of the race and no longer feels as if she is playing catch-up with her teammates. "As the race gets longer, women tend to do better and better," she says. "I think that has a lot to do with body fat, since women, even athletic and fit women, have more stores to pull from. Guys have about 6% body fat, while women will carry about 12%." The calculus of human exertion, however, is working against all the contestants. Adventure racers typically burn...
...year in revenues, mainly from local advertisers like car dealers and banks, rendering it an important marketing tool and generator of free cash flow. Sirius, in contrast, forecasts revenues of just $210 million this year and an operating loss of $480 million. Moreover, the company is continually playing catch-up to XM, which has leapfrogged Sirius with its technology and consumer electronics and boasts its own compelling programming, including dozens of ad-free music channels, Major League Baseball games and, not to be outraunched, shock jocks Opie & Anthony and Playboy Radio (the latter for a premium over the standard...
...Harvard in its race against Georgetown last week, and a similar sluggish beginning against Cornell and Penn in the season’s first dual race made the Crimson wary of another poor start against Dartmouth and MIT. In its two previous dual races, Harvard was forced to play catch-up after the race’s opening 25 strokes...