Word: drought
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...described the effects of the official 35-hour week as "perverse." But don't expect change until after the summer holiday. 'Tis The Season To Go Public It's summer, and the IPOs are in full bloom. After years of drought, this is comeback time for the initial public offering; European IPOs for June have already trumped the $6.6 billion fetched during all of 2003, according to Dealogic. Shares in Spanish broadcaster Telecinco had soared by more than 20% at the end of its debut week, while Italy's state-controlled utility Enel cheered the flotation of its national power...
After a relative drought early in the second half, Harvard picked up where it had left off with a Belitsos goal off an Owens assist 24:14 into the second half to set the score...
...Colonels finally ended a two-quarter-long scoring drought to close the gap to 5-4 late in the fourth. But the Crimson defense clamped down, holding off George Washington by the same margin for its second win of the tournament...
That's a scary thought. After crushing the 1997 Masters with a 12-stroke win to become, at 21, Augusta's youngest champion, Tiger went through a similar drought, going 28 months without winning a major. He followed that lag with the Tiger Slam: four straight titles, from the 2000 U.S. Open through the 2001 Masters. Like Wayne Gretzky and Michael Jordan before him, Tiger has blurred perspective. When only four golfers have won more majors than you have, at 28, honors like five straight Player of the Year awards are no longer good enough...
Harvard’s scoring drought, begun in the seventh inning of the weekend’s first game against Cornell, carried over into the first game of a Sunday doubleheader with Columbia...