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...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...
...thing is, on the basis of conversations with retailers, the folks at BDO figure that the vast majority of that 37% drop is due not to firms' inability to finance purchases but but to their anticipating that consumer spending simply won't be there to match...
...their respective beverages of choice, and get the VIP lounge all to themselves when it’s baby-feeding time. Now why didn’t I think of that? (Note to those thinking of improving your social life by trying this: while dancing, be sure not to drop your baby on the flo’.) Not to be outdone by these facetious puppets, Kanye himself putters around in the background of the video, occasionally offering up some back-up to the Puppet Master-Flex. But his presence only leads one to wonder why he would follow...
...bill passed the House 263 to 171 - with 91 Republicans and 172 Dems voting yes - a larger margin than expected, considering the bill's spectacular failure, 228 to 205, on Monday that caused the largest one-day drop, 778 points, in the Dow Jones industrial average. Very soon after passage, President Bush signed the bill into law, finally giving Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson the authority that he requested more than two weeks ago to buy up Wall Street's distressed mortgage-backed securities. But getting it done was not pretty or easy, and the clearest sign of that...
...Piracy declined in subsequent centuries, thanks to increasingly vigilant militaries and the development of the steam engine. But amid a drop in naval patrols and a boom in international trade following the end of the Cold War, it has flourished anew - particularly in narrow choke points such as Asia's Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden, which links the Red and Arabian seas. Buoyed by fast boats, fearsome weaponry and high-tech communications gear, pirates carried off 263 reported heists in 2007 - 28% of which occurred in the treacherous waters off Nigeria and Somalia, where vast coastlines...