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...Kris Sell from Kansas, 6-2, 6-1. Moving into the loser's bracket, Wang managed to take a first set tiebreaker from Syracuse's Shareen Lai and cruised in the second set for a Harvard victory. After the match Wang's shoulder acted up, forcing her to default her next match...
...mess, which meant the well-intentioned devaluation quickly turned into a free-for-all. The particular dilemma was that Russia's banks were loaded down with foreign-currency debt, which meant that a decrease in the value of the ruble made repayment more expensive. This made the temptation to default almost irresistible--especially since Russian banks are generally seen as checkbooks for a new class of oligarchs. As the soon to be departed Russian government heads huddled in Moscow to figure a way out of this crisis and to consider how to deal with the devaluation, the halls of their...
...Tamar March, dean of educational programsat Radcliffe, says that collaboration between thetwo schools is "not by design but by default." Shesays Radcliffe offers opportunities for theeducation of women by women that Harvard'sphilosophy of gender equality will not allow it toduplicate. Instead of co-sponsoring events, thetwo colleges are resigned to be divided...
When times get tough, these types of financial instruments are the first to default. "Companies do not view a default on derivatives as face losing," says Tanya Azarchs, a bank analyst with Standard & Poor's. "You can always say you didn't understand the derivative or the bank tricked you or whatever. Customers of derivatives just don't take it as seriously as a loan...
...self: gone, for example, are his trademark maple-leaf dorsal spines, now a forest of thorns. All that really remains is the Godzillic roar, pitched higher than a foghorn but just as resonant, sort of like a herd of elephants on methamphetamines. And that's by default. A whole audio team was given the task of duplicating the sound but couldn't. And so Devlin and Emmerich simply picked up the beast's original "yell" from Toho's sound library...