Word: dimes
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...market is poised to explode: capacity, sales and competition. Michael Rogol, a solar analyst with the brokerage CLSA, says solar sales will expand from about $12 billion this year to $40 billion in 2010. There are hundreds of start-ups that, like Energy Innovations, have yet to make a dime. "If they can get their costs down, they have a very promising commercial appeal. But that's a very big if," he says...
...Even from a strictly business standpoint, fostering good feelings with its graduates can only help Harvard, since we conceivably will be the ones adding to the record endowment years down the road. I’ve already heard more than a few people say they will never give one dime to Harvard after they leave because of these overreactions.Hand-wringing and reactionary maneuvers are not the solution to college drinking. If Harvard wants to maintain the reputation it has had for three and a half centuries, it needs to cultivate love of alma mater in its students, not pander...
...sixties. Eight undergraduates work as program coordinators, and Byerly hires HFAI students to recruit for the College in their hometowns, according to Leona A. Oakes ’07, senior coordinator of the program. Some HFAI admits were flown to Cambridge last spring on the College’s dime, and last April’s prefrosh weekend featured two open forums on student life aimed at the budget-conscious...
...plague of student clubs. Its author, Adam M. Guren, shows an excellent and most perceptive contempt for the young. It is something I have experienced myself, this contempt, strolling through the Yard, assailed at all sides by bankers’ boys in blazers and jeans like a bunch of dime-store White Stripes, girls furred in leg warmers against the warmth of the May, and each one of them First Secretary of the Students Allied for South Uighur Vegetarianism or President of the Junior Guild for Amateur Bakecraft...
...case, driving my mammoth, inefficient truck: 30¢ a mile. This meant that my high-speed gallop along the highway was costing me roughly a dollar every two minutes. I couldn't have been more flummoxed if I'd been told that I now had to pay a dime for every breath and a nickel for every heartbeat...