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...automakers. Yet while many octogenarians may aspire to improve their golf score, Kerkorian keeps thinking big and shows no signs of slowing down, not when it comes to driving, investing or his favorite sport, tennis, which he plays most weekends, still packing a powerful forehand. "He's a real competitor" on the court, says George Mason, a longtime business colleague and tennis...
...competition was tight in the javelin throw—the second- through fourth-place finishers were all within nine-tenths of a meter of one another. Pederson’s 40.07-meter toss was enough to get her fourth place, breezing past the fifth-place competitor by almost four meters...
Sirius and its bigger satellite competitor XM are death stars to the broadcast-radio industry. Since 1996 companies such as Clear Channel and Infinity (part of Viacom) have taken advantage of deregulation to buy hundreds of stations with the idea of bringing scale--and higher ad prices--to the airwaves. For a while it worked, as industry revenues rose at a double-digit clip during the late '90s ad boom and stations racked up profits thanks to cost cutting. But for listeners, that consolidation brought homogeneity, as corporate playlists suffocated local jocks, and ever more ads were jammed into each...
Assistant Coach Jared Frayer also attended the competition and earned a third-place finish. He dominated the early-round matches, beating Cliff Moore 6-0, 1-0, and T.J. Enright 3-0, 6-0. Eric Larkin proved to be a tougher competitor, but Frayer eked out s 0-4. 7-2, 1-0 win. He also lost a close match to Jared Lawrence...
...We’re saying we’re still here and we’re still the best team, at least in New England, and we’ll be a competitor in nationals,” senior Genny Tulloch said about the weekend’s women’s racing...