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...help. "The healthy entrepreneurs are ones who have come from large organizations where people are delegated responsibilities," says Newton. Buchinsky had 20 years of marketing experience before she started Little Racquets, and has hired two college students whom she pays $10 an hour to help teach her growing class load. Schandel found an assistant at nearby Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles whom she pays $17 an hour...
...long run, that collaborativeness bolsters the firm's ability to do what it thinks is best for investors. Consider the 1990s, when tech-stock valuations soared off the charts. Many value investors came under enormous pressure from shareholders and corporate parents to load up on ridiculously inflated stocks. David Hoeft, who covers technology stocks at Dodge & Cox and sits on the domestic-equities committee, recalls a very different experience. "Our job inside the firm got easier," he says. "We trimmed as time went on. We just couldn't rationalize the expectations." No finger pointing. No pressure from the boss...
...every pound of it you add means more mass the engine must propel, which requires more fuel still, and on and on. A spacecraft like Dawn, which is designed not just to fly by its two targets but also to settle into orbit around them, would require a massive load of onboard...
With the CCC's new system—and a growing number of sources moving from hard copies to comprehensive online databases such as LexisNexis and JSTOR—coursepacks may become a lighter load on students' backs as well as a lesser burden on already pinched wallets...
...bomb outside Tiger Tiger was probably too small to destroy the nightclub, according to experts. "In the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, there you had a huge truck loaded with explosives parked under the World Trade Center, so much better placed, and a much better load. And it still didn't bring down the World Trade Center," Dr. Peter Neumann, the director of the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London, told TIME...