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...Wall Street's expectations, triggering a sell-off in the company's shares. The company reported a loss of 28 cents a share, which was narrower than the $1.49-a-share loss a year earlier. However, it missed analysts' projections. Investors were particularly miffed at Alcoa's revenue number, which totaled $5.43 billion, down 4.6% from $5.69 billion a year ago. Analysts had been expecting revenue growth. Investors subsequently dumped shares, causing the stock to plunge 11%, its worst one-day drop since last March. "The reaction [to Alcoa's miss] is a reflection of what's to come," says...
...year off to a good start,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “There were a number of good races, and I was pleased with the guys’ energy and focus...
...make,” wrote Christian L. Garland ’10-’11, co-chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, in an e-mailed statement. “Personally, I think it has to be used in tandem with any number of other legal arguments. Refuting Scalia’s and other justices’ argument of 'special rights' is going to be more important...
...lists we top, I’m glad Harvard is not number one on this list,” former Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 quipped to The Crimson when that news broke last fall...
That sense of resignation is common these days in the one-stoplight town of Frostproof, where the Story Companies, the family's citrus enterprise, has a number of groves. Located in Polk County, which produces more citrus fruit than any place in the U.S., Frostproof got its name in the 1890s, when its trees were somehow spared some of that decade's citrus-killing winter freezes. But the moniker has been sorely tested during this month's Arctic blast, not so much because of the plummeting nighttime temps but because of how long they're lasting this year - almost...