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Heading to the ECAC Championships in Flushing Meadows, N.Y., the two-time defending champion Harvard men’s tennis team had much to ponder. The departure of last year’s glut of senior talent had left the Crimson inexperienced and, in recent weeks, seemingly uninspired...
When asked about the glut of penalty corners awarded to the Huskies, senior goalie Aliaa Remtilla said, “You mean the penalty corners that should have actually happened? I mean, I’m not going to criticize the reffing, but I don’t know that all of [the penalty corner calls] were necessarily valid calls...
...executive director of Victoria's Youth Substance Abuse Service, which provides treatment, housing and support to about 2,000 young people each year, says heroin abuse remains common among young people with histories of abuse and violence, who use the drug to numb their emotions. When there was a glut of the drug, Murray says, far more people than usual were able to find and try it. Now, he says, "you have to know where to go and who to talk to." That means little has changed for the service: "Our kids have always been able to get it when...
...model. You see an opportunity, you build a mall, you sell out and leave." Mall builders like Unitech and DLF acknowledge that there has been speculative mall building, but blame it on smaller competitors that lack their long-term vision. Instead of putting a check on the mall-building glut, says Bakshi, India's state and local governments are all too happy to encourage it. "Governments sell land because they get great prices for it," he says. However, an administrator with the Haryana Urban Development Authority, which oversees the development of Gurgaon, denies that the government has been reckless...
That's what Wall Street wants to see (aside from those rebates). But the Street is rumbling that automakers may be saddled with a glut of heavy metal at the precise moment that consumers want more economical cars. "I get a sense that nobody is panicking about this, and that makes me a little nervous," says Steve Girsky, senior automotive analyst at Morgan Stanley. It has happened before. In the 1970s, when gas prices soared, the Big Three were caught flat-footed with large, fuel-hungry cars, allowing Honda, Nissan and Toyota to swoop in and grab market share...