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...hour, China is pressing its labor advantage, luring foreign automakers to both supply its domestic market and develop export programs. Almost all the big names?GM, Ford, Honda, Volkswagen?have joint ventures that assemble vehicles for the local market, with sales booming at a 22% average annual clip. Strong sales in China have cooled the impetus to export. So has the majors' ample capacity at plants overseas. And low wages don't make China a low-cost producer. The country has an inefficient supply chain, high component costs (many parts are slapped with import tariffs) and nonwage expenses like housing...
...break, Scott had 14 points on four-of-four shooting and a six-of-seven clip from the line. As a whole, Dartmouth shot 53.6 percent from the floor in the first half and was nine-of-16 from the three-point line. Harvard posted a respectable 46.4 percent clip, but all the damage was done on the defensive end. Dartmouth’s 48 first-half points are the most the Crimson has given up on the year...
...working with Sundrum, Randall stumbled on a possible answer to why gravity is so weak compared to other forces. Gravity may not appear weak to the casual observer. But, as Randall explained to the crowd at a Science Center Research Lecture last month, a small magnet holding a paper clip resists the gravitational pull of the entire Earth...
...Need more animals? The Cowardly Lion. And Toto too.) The film, which flopped in its original release but went on to entertain families happily ever after, looks Technicolor terrific on this three-disc set, which includes five promo documentaries, 10 period portraits of the stars and a rare audio clip of Judy Garland sobbing her way through a reprise of Over the Rainbow--a surprise minute or so of heartrending musical melodrama...
...mismatch compounded by the Crimson’s inability to hit from beyond the arc. Harvard shot just 1-of-11 from the three-point line in the second half and was just 30.4 percent from the floor on the game, while SMU finished with a 52.7 percent clip from the field. “We understand that there's some reservoir of resiliency on our team,” Sullivan said. “But at the end of the day, no matter who you play, if they shoot 53 percent, we’re not going to hang...