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...yard line with under two minutes to go and Brown sending its punt block unit in the hopes of establishing field position for a game-winning score. But King’s 40-yarder out of bounds pinned the Bears at their own 21, giving the Harvard defense a cushion...
...flamboyant Italian accomplice, Count Fosco. Among the country mansions and shadowy villages of Hampshire and Cumberland, the three find their fates terrifyingly entwined. Where Lloyd Webber scores is with the score. It would have been easy for the composer to fall back on a lush, serve-all orchestral cushion. But to his credit, he tries something sparse, minimalist and deliberately discomfiting. In a scene borrowed from a Charles Dickens story (The Signalman), the Act I curtain rises on a bitingly cold railway cutting, telegraph wires whipping ominously in the wind. It's an unsettling, otherworldly sound, and thereafter the score...
...handed two-time defending champions Penn the inside track to repeat with 114 points, aided by six first-place votes. But the Quakers, hard hit by key graduations in the past off-season—certainly weren’t afforded the luxury of anything resembling the three-game cushion with which they finished last season...
...less than 2% of the E.U.'s GDP. (These numbers don't include the 4 million farmers in the 10 nations that joined the E.U. in May, 2.7 million of them in Poland). But given the strong attachment many Europeans feel to the countryside, governments have been careful to cushion the impact of the changes to agricultural policies. And agritourism could be a commercially viable way for farmers to earn a living while keeping the rural landscape intact. Even in relatively wealthy countries, the demand is urgent. In Britain, an average farmer earns somewhere between...
...story. Surging exports to China accounted for 32% of total Japanese-export growth in 2003. Japanese capital spending is also being driven in a significant way by capacity expansion in those industries trading with China. With annual private-consumption growth remaining anemic at about 1.5%, Japan has very little cushion against a falloff in mainland exports...