Word: focusing
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...much as you might be tempted to sneak a peak at your brokerage statement at the end of a 936-point day, the best advice remains the same: ignore the tick-tock of the markets and focus on long-term investing goals. Last week, in the wake of nauseating stock-market losses, San Francisco-based financial planner David Yeske sent out a letter to clients suggesting they make the following promise: "Today, I will not watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox News or any other media source that thrives on bad news and reminds us of it 24/7. Today, I will...
...just makes you stop and think,” said Daniel B. Poneman ’78, who lived in Winthrop House. “It makes you focus on the here and now and take the time we’re given and make the most...
...making kills out of nothing,” junior co-captain Lily Durwood said. “On her second day, she hit .500, which is essentially unheard of for an outside hitter. They couldn’t stop her.”This weekend, Harvard will turn its focus elsewhere in the Ivy League, as it returns home to play Cornell and Columbia. In three weeks, however, McKinley, Durwood, and the rest of the women’s squad will have another crack at Brown and Yale when the teams square off once again in the Malkin Athletic Center...
...It’s a tough one mentally, coming off the rivalry game against Yale and then having the game against Brown coming up next week,” Harvard coach Jamie Clark said of the Cornell match. “But we still managed to focus and go about the job at hand.”The Big Red (1-8, 0-2), who came into the game having been outscored 21-5, proved no match for the Crimson. Co-captain Fucito opened the scoring in the 26th minute with a beautiful left-footed strike, and after Stamatis made...
...Crimson competitors showed concern at the team’s lack of consistent execution.“I thought we were really moving forward as a team, but this weekend we really took a step back,” sophomore Jeff Lee. “Guys are just not focused.”The Crimson still has a long way to go, closing out the regular season with two of its last three contests at home, followed by a two-week break to prepare for the Northern Championships next month.“We’re playing for seeding...