Word: effort
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Chris Grancio, Harvard (Senior center, 6'8) South Hamilton, MA Grancio was a major factor in both of Harvard's games this weekend. First the versatile big man scored a career-high 25 points in Harvard's loss to Princeton. But big points in a losing effort does not an Ivy Player of the Week make. The next night, in the senior's final game in front of a hometown crowd, he scored 26 points and grabbed nine boards to help the Crimson to an overtime victory over the Quakers. On the weekend, he corraled 14 rebounds...
...with a comment about the ?irrational exhuberance? among investors that was driving stock prices high, told the Senate Wednesday that the recent upward run of the stock market poses an inflationary threat. When he added that the Fed would not rule out raising short-term interest rates in an effort to ease those inflationary pressures, the markets went temporarily insane. Within moments, the Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 101 points, while in the bond markets, interest rates on 30-year Treasury bonds soared from 6.66 percent to 6.80 percent. Investors fear that a tightening of credit will draw...
...important novel because its central dictum, "Only connect," is a prescription for the moral life. It was assumed that making connections was a sign of the mind's worth and purpose. Only connect; things fall apart; these fragments I have shored against my ruins. Perhaps this effort to bridge and yoke was a consequence of the big bad Bomb, and of a world growing up under the persistent threat of disintegration. Perhaps it was simply an invention of the academy in which exam questions insisted on one's making sense of this as related to that...
...always a risk when little companies get big dreams. Right now the entire indie industry needs caution. The current boom could be only a bump. Aging moviegoers could go back to TV. Or the next film by English Patient director Anthony Minghella could be more like his previous, invisible effort, Mr. Wonderful. Or the major studios could emerge from their stupor and figure out how to make the kinds of films from which the indies have profited...
...interview ("You understand that your memory ... is also the property of Omega Logic?") opens the book. His tireless idealism is the catalyst that creates the low-cost alternative to Omega's overpriced computers. In the end, Omega is forced to hire Caspar back to lead the company's Internet effort. Does the name of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs--whose public grudge against his old firm disappeared as soon as he was rehired to provide Apple with a badly needed Internet-friendly operating system--sound a wild...