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...think that Noam was very disappointed to not win her final match, but she is a very determined athlete, and I certainly expect to see her back in the same position next year,” Brand said...
...this new era, everybody must begin to account for his or her behavior. Wall Street executives cannot get fat on paper profits from powder-keg transactions. Government regulators cannot take long lunches to toast the invisible hand. Investors cannot expect new bubbles to bailout their busts. Congress cannot send home boondoggle pork projects while whining about government spending. And the President of the United States shall no longer have the liberty to dodge the big issues. He will have to lead by example and make the hard choices. (See who's who in Obama's White House...
...much marketing will be needed to sell the Nano to aspiring Indians like the ones I met in Pune. Indians buy about 1.4 million cars and 7 million two-wheelers a year. Even if the Nano initially grabs just a fraction of this market, as Tata executives expect, demand will outstrip the current annual production capacity of 45,000 cars - meaning there will likely be long waiting lists and disappointed customers. But Tata Motors can't make more Nanos due to a controversy over construction of what was to be the Nano's main factory in Singur in the state...
...what you can do for your country." Sitting between us was a shy young man who practiced this new English sentence over and over, savoring Kennedy's rhetorical flourish. The words took on a strange quality in Burma, a place where people don't expect their country to do much of anything for them. But the young student was willing to take up the challenge of the other half of Kennedy's equation. "It's my responsibility to my country to teach people about the elections," he said. "People say they are stupid, but we have nothing else to look...
...thought that Portland played great doubles against us,” head coach David Fish ’72 said. “I honestly didn’t know what to expect in the singles if they could keep up that kind of torrid pace...