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...from the top of the key and was fouled with 16:18 remaining in the second half. She sank the free throw to give the Crimson a 43-30 lead, and the Quakers would never get closer than 11 for the rest of the night. Harvard received a big lift on Friday as senior guard Jessica Holsey returned to action for the first time since Jan. 7. In six minutes, Holsey notched three assists. On one possession, Holsey dribbled behind her back around her defender and found a streaking Emily Tay for the layup and the easy two points...
...Ghosn was forced to issue profit warnings for 2006, and indicated that 2007 would be slow too. In response, Ghosn spent nine months looking at the group's international offices, assembly lines and even dealerships to map out a new business plan for Renault. He wants to lift operating profit margin to 6%, increase annual Renault car sales from the current 2.5 million to 3.3 million, relaunch 13 existing brands, and roll out another 13 new models. Ghosn also plans to step up Renault's activity in luxury, suv and crossover categories, and exploit its effervescent markets outside of Western...
Such conspicuous revelry has turned India's wedding- planning industry into a $10 billion market and has stoked a consumer boom that coincides with the November-February marriage season. Commodity analysts say Indian demand for gold wedding jewelry helped lift the metal's price to a 25-year high last month. Among the beneficiaries are entrepreneurs like Neeta Raheja, who runs a wedding-planning company called Creative Explosions. The firm organizes weddings that range from $20,000 (the average cost of a wedding blast in the U.S.) to $2 million, which gets you hand-painted invitations by artist M.F. Husain...
...goaltender Alison Quandt, with 23 saves for the night, continued to frustrate the Crimson offense. “We got some great saves,” Eagles coach Tom Mutch said. “To get an early lead…gave us a little comfort zone, a little lift.” And with that energy, BC kept Harvard scoreless in the first period. As the second period opened, the Eagles again kept the pressure on the Crimson, not allowing easy shots on goal. Though Harvard’s strength this season has been its ability to score during...
...having righted a Nagano wrong by winning the gold medal in 2002 in Salt Lake City, the focus in Torino--pre-Gretzky, anyway--was supposed to shift at least slightly to the rest of the country's Olympic athletes. The C.O.C. is challenging its skiers, skaters and sliders to lift Canada to third place overall at this year's Games, up from fourth in Salt Lake City. With the Vancouver-Whistler Games on the horizon, the C.O.C. views Torino as an early indicator of whether Canada has any hope of achieving No. 1 status in 2010. "We understand that...