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...third quarter: After a Crimson facemask penalty gives Penn a first down, Walker goes up high for Derham, but Williams is there to knock the ball down. A Harvard DB has had two picks in every home game this year. Who'll it be today...
...cruising, though, Bombardier's noise-and-vibration-reduction system (cousin to technology used in submarines) monitors sound levels through microphones inside the plane walls. A computer initiates vibrations through special absorbers to counter those from the propellers, reducing the resonance of the airframe and hushing the cabin about 4 db quieter than many jets. ATR upgraded its four-blade propeller to a six-blade fiber-composite one with a smaller diameter that generates less vibration and cabin noise when coupled with other noise-dampening features...
...Dutch have steered a middle way between irresponsible Continental generosity and practical Anglo-American stinginess. They have also, to lapse into pension jargon, split the difference between DB and DC plans. In a defined-benefit (DB) plan, workers are promised a retirement income, and the sponsor--usually a corporation or government--is on the hook to provide it. In a defined-contribution (DC) plan, the worker and sometimes the employer set aside money and hope it will be enough...
...problem with DB is that sponsors are prone to lowball or ignore the true cost. In the U.S., where corporate pensions provide a key supplement to Social Security, Congress has felt the need to pass multiple laws aimed at preventing companies from underfunding them. In response, some companies spent billions shoring up their funds; many others simply stopped offering pensions. Just since 2004, at least 66 big companies have frozen or terminated their DB plans, estimates Barclays Global Investors. Corporate DB has given way to individual DC plans like the 401(k) and IRA. But these put too much responsibility...
...Mike Cook was a guy that we recruited as a quarterback but told him he’d probably be a receiver or a DB, so we made that move and he had a good spring,” Murphy said. “He’s going to be a good receiver...