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After the last of the detainees had made their mark, and the elders had departed, McCullough and I stood in the hallway outside Governor Manaf's office. McCullough had a lot to do that day - his Marines were trying to maintain security, rebuild bridges, solve the riddles of the local canal networks, and so on. But before he went on to his next meeting, I asked him what he would have done if one of the detainees had refused to sign the document. He responded unequivocally: "We would've convinced them to sign...
...while University officials maintain that Harvard is “in no way responsible for any increased rodent activity,” the University agreed to fund the trash receptacles as “part of [its] larger partnership with the city and the neighborhood,” said Kevin A. McCluskey ’76, Harvard’s senior director of community relations for Boston...
USAGE: "[Former bank CEO Paul] Joegriner is a member of what might be called the severance economy--unemployed Americans who use severance pay and savings to maintain their lifestyles...
...Equities bears maintain that the recent stock rally has already outrun fundamentals and that stocks are no longer cheap. To be sure, based on projected operating earnings for all of 2009, S&P 500 companies are trading at an average price-earnings ratio of nearly 19, higher than the long-term historical average of 15. But basing stock values on 2009 data is inappropriate. This year saw the bottom of the worst recession since World War II. What is relevant for determining stock values are future earnings, not past earnings. Next year's operating earnings for S&P 500 companies...
...didn’t beat ourselves, but we tied ourselves to a certain extent,” Crimson coach Ted Donato ’91 said. “We got to learn how to play smart in the third period but maintain our aggressiveness and our pressure on them...the concern is we got to play a complete hockey game...