Word: hybrids
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...Toyota Prius had expired in late 2006, sales actually increased the following year by 69%. (Similarly, prerecession sales of the Lexus LS 600h L far exceeded projections, even though some had wrongly predicted that green-friendly consumers wouldn't shell out well over $100,000 for a hybrid...
...endowment had already dropped by 22 percent. ‘OPPORTUNITY FOR CHANGE’Since then, Mendillo has made adjustments to both the portfolio allocation and the internal structure at HMC, although she and her colleagues all say that the long-term investment strategy and the internal-external hybrid structure utilized by the company will remain largely the same.“She’s had no hesitation in deciding that during certain moments this past year we should no longer do certain things that we would normally have been able to do, in terms of deploying capital...
...exception. New York City’s Chancellor of Schools, Joel I. Klein, has already instituted a modified version of merit pay: The district gave $14.2 million in bonuses to schools that improved their performance in the 2007-2008 school year. A more effective system would be a hybrid model in which school-wide bonuses were complemented by rewards to individual teachers based on evaluation of their teacher, but Klein’s program is a step in the right direction...
...managing shifting economic winds. There's no peskily powerful Congress to worry about, for one thing; what the Chinese government wants in the way of policy, it gets. Christopher Wood, chief Asia strategist for the brokerage and investment firm CLSA, says the fact that China's economy is a hybrid of capitalism and a socialist command economy has given the government much greater flexibility to intervene. Beijing more or less ordered Chinese banks to increase lending in response to the global financial meltdown. Wood, a former journalist well known for predicting the bursting of Japan's bubble 20 years...
...against three opponents that were seeded higher than the Crimson. “We knew that we were strong going into that week, but we knew [Trinity, Penn, and Princeton] were going to be tough,” junior captain Johanna Snyder said. “It was [a] hybrid of confidence and viewing them as true competition that made us successful.” The Crimson impressed in every way possible against No. 3 Trinity. Seven out of the nine matches went past three games, but Harvard’s young talent came out on top, 7-2. Harvard...