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...Spies says that tuition discrepancies right now are not substantial enough to make a dent in the competition...
With a make, Houston would join the pantheon of Big Apple post-season heroes, from Bucky Dent to Stephane Matteau. With a miss, he would join the ghost of Charles Smith in the graveyard of unfulfilled hoop dreams...
With a make, Houston would join the pantheon of Big Apple post-season heroes, from Bucky Dent to Stephane Matteau. With a miss, he would join the ghost of Charles Smith in the graveyard of unfulfilled hoop dreams...
...what if the codes had slipped out? The fallout could put a sizable dent in the U.S.'s nuclear hegemony. The legacy codes are sets of equations that approximate how nuclear explosions work; they are modified as weapons tests are conducted to assess the potency of new designs. Coupling the codes with actual engineering specifications for warheads--like the W-88 designs China has already stolen--would give a foreign government a road map for replicating the American nuclear arsenal...
...growth machine is double-clutching, feeling the dark side of globalization in places like Brazil, its third largest market, where the recent devaluation hurt business severely. Coke's sales are also weak across Asia, and the company's huge investment in Russia is underwater. Pepsi needs to make a dent in Coke away from home, because the Atlantans derive most of their profits outside the U.S., where Coke outsells Pepsi...