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Admittedly, the Fleet Center is a venue that does not well accommadate a band of such a small size (and weak spirit), although not more than 10 seats away we still had difficulty deciphering the band's mariachi-like tunes and mumbled chants. Criticism spouted from both Harvard and non-Harvard fans, to which the band could have responded in a positive fashion, by focusing its energy on the game. Quite to the contrary, though, it seemed to become almost spiteful, displaying some of the most outrageous behavior I have ever witnessed by any school band. For example, one fellow...
...also because, despite the full planes and record profits, the industry is still burdened with a large amount of debt and faces big capital outlays for new equipment. The U.S. has the oldest fleet in the developed world. Nor is the threat from discount carriers over. Although the ValuJet crash took with it the public's confidence in upstart airlines, the barrier to entry is still relatively low. Capital, pilots, planes and entire outsourced airline service industries are readily available...
...beaten the market averages handily in the past year. That's not all: Reebok shares have risen an average annual 29% since the bull market began in October 1990--outdistancing the average stock, which has risen just 16% a year. Granted, Reebok had some lean years. And next to fleet-footed Nike, its problems glowed in the dark. But management got back in training and since 1995 has cut expenses, sold the underperforming Avia division, bought back 23% of outstanding stock and embarked on an ambitious new-product campaign. Its backlog of footwear orders is now up for the first...
Until last week, what is known in military parlance as "the necklace" was mostly invisible to American civilians. The fleet of 150 warplanes, flying from 10 bases ringing the U.S., costs taxpayers about $1 million a day defending the nation's air sovereignty. In 1993 Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Colin Powell recommended that the fleet be scrapped, saying, "We have a large number of planes that are still waiting for Soviet bombers to come over the North Pole." Last week there were fresh reasons for grounding the relic--two episodes in which it seemed as if U.S. warplanes were...
...this semester, I enrolled in two cores: the aforementioned "The Bible" and Science B-16: "The History of Life." Coming in at about 250 students, B-16 seems positively cozy compared to the Fleet Center-like atmosphere of Sanders...