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Whole Foods now has 190 locations from Tigard, Ore., to Notting Hill in London. In fiscal 2006 the chain's sales grew 19% (to $5.6 billion), a bit lower than 2005's 22% growth. Fretful about increasing competition from mainstream grocers who are offering more organic products, investors have punished Whole Foods in the past year; its stock price has fallen more than a third since February...
...process now, however, is distinctly different from the high school recruiting process. Because Seligmann would be applying as a transfer student, the lacrosse program cannot actively seek him out. Additionally, there’s the fact that the transfer admissions rate sits much lower than Harvard’s already stingy general admissions rate...
...coming within three points after a 5-1 run late in the match. After the teams exchanged points, Harvard took the game with a kill and a Chargers error, wrapping up, 30-25. The final game came after a Crimson slump in the second contest. Harvard attained a much lower hitting percentage of .129, as it let New Haven take an 8-5 lead to start the game. The Chargers’ 13 kills and .222 hitting percentage were not enough to maintain its advantage, however, and a few short runs by the Crimson pushed...
...Everybody gets down on their confidence,” Fish said. “He was down and the other guys had been up, and any time you get to play a little lower, you’re probably going to win some more matches, and if you play up high, you’re going to have some tough ones. He’d played tough guys, lost in three sets, good matches to these guys, but after a while, everybody just feels ‘I need...
...Just as important is the current slump for so-called "sub-prime" lenders - who service borrowers with damaged credit ratings, typically on the lower end of the income scale. The shares of companies that specialize in such loans has fallen as default rates have risen...