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...Caywood says that during crunch periods, when work must be produced quickly, occasional breaks are a luxury most Harvard students cannot afford...
...crunch time for the movie business. Print labs, publicity machines, moguls' teeth--all are grinding overtime to get a bunch of pricey or prestige-laden films into theaters by Christmastime. You'd think Hollywood was Toys "R" Us, doing a Simba's share of business at year-end, or that releasing a serious film at holiday time helped win Oscars. No and no. The summer is still box-office prime time; and in the past five years, only six of the 25 Oscar nominees for Best Picture were released in December. Yet that is when studios launch dozens of ambitious...
...could face an Asian double whammy, at least in the short run. First, the region's economic crunch will probably cause its consumers and companies to buy less from America. Second, sales by U.S. firms in Asia won't add as much to their bottom line because Far Eastern currencies are worth 20% to 40% less than they were just a few months ago. Warns Sung Won Sohn, chief economist at Norwest Corp., a large bank based in Minneapolis, Minn.: "The collapse of Hong Kong and other Asian economies is spreading like an oil slick that will continue to wash...
...midterm crunch always sneaks up on us. Whether it means we're writing reams of pedantic essays or botching hundreds of exams, chances are good that this week has brought almost every Harvard undergraduate to the precipice of academic catastrophe--or at the very least, to the precipice of the dreaded B-plus. But we often forget that it is actually the week after midterms, not the midterm week itself, that is crucial to our academic success. Next week, our papers and midterms will come back to us graded. And right now, our fate is entirely in the hands...
...worried. "Look, the walls are not going to come tumbling down," he says. "This is not Jericho. I am absolutely confident of our ability to work out this new partnership with the business side--and not only our ability, but of our need to do it." The crunch, after...