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...fruit in packing houses for four to five days and testing it to avoid another PR snafu. And while growers will make more money on the few oranges they are able to sell, they are also aware that they have an incentive to keep a cap on the extra margin. Peaches, nectarines and grapes, many of which come from Chile, are now hitting their peak season - and for many consumers, that substitution may do just fine...
Against CCSU last night, Harvard fought back from an incredible 18-point margin to muster its improbable 72-65 victory...
...week after undergraduates overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling on administrators to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, supporters of the proposal are left with the daunting task of figuring out how to implement the mandate from the student body. The resolution, which passed by a nearly 9-to-1 margin, calls on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to reduce its emissions to a level 11 percent lower than its 1990 output by 2020. That’s just a one percent larger reduction than Yale has committed to make in the same time period. But it?...
...current circumstances, the job would be even worse than it was when Mitchell held it, because the margin is so close. Whichever party gets control in January will have a majority of 51 at most, which means the leader will be at least nine votes short of 60 - the minimum required to get anything past a filibuster, which is for all intents and purposes what he will need to get anything controversial through. As the Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell, the incoming Minority Leader (at least as things stand at the moment) has noted, he can lose eight votes and still...
...Crimson, however, is not simply explosive offense and steady goaltending. Its penalty kill is third in the nation and it leads in scoring margin by over a half a goal per game...