Word: knocks
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...League. With No. 20 Yale currently sitting on a perfect 3-0-0 Ivy record, Harvard no longer controls its own destiny in the race for the Ivy League title.“A tie’s obviously better than a loss, [but] it does kind of knock us down in the Ivy rankings just because it’s so close this year,” Shields said. “This was a game that we were in and we feel we could have won.”“We realize [that] anything can happen...
Levi attempts authenticity by hanging with Carl, a spoken-word genius straight from the city’s depths, and a gang of angry Haitians who sell knock-off Prada and CD’s, three for $10. Returning to Wellington, he sees the school: “The pristine white spires of the college seemed to him like the watchtowers of a prison to which he was returning.” Levi tries to escape, but Smith fails to specify where, and if, he finds a better home...
This is microsurgery in a dollhouse, eight hours a day, with plenty of pressure; there are stress-relief posters in the hallway. But the mood is eerily calm. "Sometimes you knock something over and lose a lot of work," says Fabrice Joubert, who earlier worked on five DreamWorks cartoons, "but you have to be very...
...sponsors could see the knock-on effect too. Consider Fujifilm, the Japanese photo firm. Fuji hands out U.S.-made disposable cameras at every tour stop. Each camera can turn into two Wal-Mart visits--one to drop off the exposed film, the other to pick up the prints. Since Fuji runs the printmaking operation at Wal-Mart, it can give away the camera and still profit. Fuji's business in Wal-Mart rose 30% last year, and sales of most FLW-sponsored products have outstripped Wal-Mart's overall sales increases. Fishing fans, according to FLW's independent research...
...recruiting info session the recruiter asked what percentage of people were in each class, and there were more than a couple freshmen there. The urge to go over and knock the plates of shrimp and chicken and chocolate-covered pretzels out of their greedy little freshman hands was overwhelming. If you’re not a senior, you should be enjoying your college life, enjoying your summers, and making sure you wait as long as humanly possible to start worrying about getting a job. It seems my mom was right after all— I am already coming...