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Despite the noticeable drop in Harvard’s national standing, Bajwa called the trend a “cycle...
...picture, long-term-payoff approach is what helps companies weather short-term vagaries. Dong recently reported a tumble in revenue from $11 billion in 2008 to $9.1 billion in 2009 - in large measure because of the global financial crisis and drop in energy prices. While the company said it expects higher sales in 2010, Eldrup looks beyond the quarterly reports. "This is the way the energy business is," he says. "We are working on a long-term horizon...
...acid test of a movie's popularity is its staying power. Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married Too? fell a precipitous 62.4% from its opening three days - the biggest second-weekend drop since Valentine's fell 70.4%. Perry's fan base is avid but limited; nearly everyone who wants to see his films sees them the instant they hit the theaters. Other movies keep soaring on good word of mouth. How to Train Your Dragon opened two weeks ago at $43.7 million, on the weak side for a DreamWorks 3-D animated feature. But it fell only...
...Woods passed unruffled through a tornado alert, only to have the wind drop to nothing as he entered the treacherous Amen Corner, where Masters dreams go to die. Even the weather seemed to forgive him. And Woods was as cool as January on the Carolina coast, answering two of his three bogeys (bad scores, for the golf novices still reading) with eagles on the very next hole. (See pictures of Tiger Woods' owning up to his infidelities...
...told, over several decades, the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council distributed some 44,000 lbs. (20,000 kg) of HEU - enough for 800 nuclear weapons - to around 50 countries as diverse as Australia, Jamaica and Vietnam. Although that figure is a drop in the bucket compared with the estimated 4.4 million lbs. (2 million kg) of HEU in weapons and storage in the U.S. and Russia, the Atoms for Peace HEU is of particular concern because it is used in civilian reactors that are often poorly guarded and vulnerable to theft. As William Potter, director...