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...game, but the Crimson offense could not be squelched for long. Offsay and Garcia netted five and three goals, respectively, to send the game into overtime. But throughout the game, once the Crimson tied the score, it was unable to execute and get on top, forcing itself to play catch-up for most of the game...
WILLIAM BAUMOL: There is a very clear possibility that the common man and woman's view is right: that [economic] catch-up in China may lead to a lower level and rate of growth of GDP per capita in the U.S. I am not advocating tariffs. We are so much richer than China that it may be desirable for us to make a modest sacrifice to raise their standards of living. But better still is for us to take measures that will be advantageous both to China and to us. It is obscene for us to ignore the effects...
...Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), an independent testing body created in 1999. WADA will forward its results to the International Olympic Committee (I.O.C.), which can then bar athletes from competing if they test positive for any of hundreds of illegal or prohibited drugs. Since its inception, WADA has been playing catch-up with better-informed and better-equipped athletes, some of whom can pay their way into the world of designer drugs created to evade detection. But the agency has started to close the gap. At the 2002 Winter Games, WADA tested the arriving athletes and surprised them with a more...
...member of the Greek Parliament, her commercial savvy as the wife of a shipping tycoon and an impeccable instinct for knowing when to scare or seduce her adversaries, she somehow persuaded the government, which oversees all public works and Olympic construction in Greece, to begin a desperate game of catch-up on 138 Olympics-related infrastructure projects. "It was like running the marathon," she recalls, "at a sprinter's pace...
...General Motors, company executives are once again deflecting charges that the firm is missing out on a hot new market and will have to play catch-up. GM has for years been publicly dismissive of hybrid cars. In January, vice chairman Bob Lutz described hybrids as "an interesting curiosity" and said, "We will make some," but added that they didn't make much sense with gasoline at $1.50 per gal. Gas prices are up 30% since then, but GM officials insist their strategy has not changed. The focus is still on delivering hybrid versions of SUVs and pickups while devoting...