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...know who lives on the outskirts of the Square anymore.” Like most retailers, MacDonald counts on a strong holiday season. But he predicted that some businesses could find themselves suffering this year.“After the holiday season, there’s a huge drop-off and you have to borrow money from the bank,” said MacDonald. “Some businesses will find they won’t be able to.”Store managers for larger retailers such as Urban Outfitters and restaurants such as Bertucci’s were...
...final tally, Dartmouth never trailed by more than three points. Carrying Harvard to the finish, McKinley came through with six kills and Ingersoll was close behind with five. One last service ace by Durwood topped off the Crimson’s 3-0 shutout of the Big Green.Attributing the drop-off in the third to a more relaxed attitude, the women’s team was not fazed by the tighter score.“I think it was mostly that we were comfortable,” Ingersoll said. “Even though it was closer, we still...
Since the store primarily sells textbooks for courses taught at the Law School, the drop-off is not surprising—Law School classes began on Sept. 2 this year...
...Diplomats and intelligence professionals must acknowledge that honor and humiliation often weigh as heavily in the minds of statesmen and citizens as do economic and security interests. Americans, who have not experienced a precipitous drop-off in power, have difficulty relating to the running tallies of slights maintained in other places. They must avoid the habit of projecting onto others their own ideas of what is rational. This is one more reason to expand the language, anthropological and historical training of diplomats and others...
...nevertheless, undaunted by the tide or by what his Marin County neighbors must think. "I've told a lot of people that I'm trying to save the plastic bag," he says. "They look at me with horror." But he says that no, he has not seen a drop-off in dinner-party invitations. "This is not an issue that belongs in the left bucket or the right bucket. It's about truth. And I'm determined to make it register...