Word: nip
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APRIL 11--It was a showdown at the Ohiri Corral as first-ranked Harvard took on second-ranked Maryland. In a nip-and-tuck match, the Crimson squeaked by with a 7-5 triumph...
Unlike the nip-and-tuck battle of one year ago, Harvard delivered what amounted to a first-round knockout of Brown inside the friendly confines of the Palmer-Dixon Tennis Center...
...volume of refinancing has fallen off sharply. At the same time, applications for first-time mortgages have tumbled nearly 15% since February. "The biggest threat to the recovery would be a surge in interest rates," says Lynn Michaelis, president of the National Association of Business Economists. "That would nip the recovery right...
Penn, however, has been known to pull a few surprises. Last week, it almost upset Brown in a nip and tuck contest that went down to the wire. The Quakers barely lost...
...properly focused, these measures could be sensible and even effective. But they are little more than cosmetic surgery -- a nip here, a tuck there. What the U.S. economy desperately needs, many experts now argue, is the equivalent of open-heart surgery. The key to the economic transformation: basic investment in capital improvements and not in consumption. The notion would be to rebuild a public environment in which businesses could flourish. In this way, America's waning competitiveness in global markets might be restored...