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...owe a huge debt to those coaches," Harvard Coach Tim Wheaton says. "In college you can only fine-tune these skills. It's a great honor to work with them...
Still, it seems that the big American firms are not quite ready to compete in the world economy. They owe many of their tenuous gains to the weak dollar, which jacks up the price of foreign steel; that has helped reduce the imports' share of the U.S. steel market from a peak of 26% in 1984 to about 16% today. "The nonunion companies are world-class leaders," says John Tumazos, who follows the steel industry for the firm Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette. "The competitiveness of the large, traditional companies results primarily from the weak dollar...
...pretty much the same way "Prince of Thieves" started, in some dungeon in the Middle East. There Robin of Loxley (yes, it's "Loxley", not "Locksley"), played by Cary Elwes, meets Asneeze (Isaac Hayes) who saves Robin. They go through that "You have saved my life, so I owe you a favor" bit so that Ahchoo (Dave Chappelle), son of Asneeze, can get into the movie...
...August by a seven-minute fire fight among mostly white teenagers in Benson. "I've lived in this area all my life, and now boys are shooting at each other for the hell of it," says Bonnie Elseman, a single mother in the neighborhood. "I now realize that I owe the blacks in Omaha an apology for ignoring all the shootings because I thought it was just their problem. I could just weep for these kids...
According to Mara, some of the money owed to the Business School is held by companies in which the University has investments. Philip Morris, for example, owes the school a $150 dividend check. In addition, IBM appears to owe the Harvard Coop some investment-related money, Mara says...