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...Jania prevailed easily 6-0, 6-2, and at No. 4, freshman Holly Cao earned a 6-4, 6-3 victory.Over the weekend, the freshmen played particularly well in the No. 4 through No. 6 positions. Both Jania and Laciny have won more than 50 percent of their singles contests in the dual match season. Since returning from injury, Cao is undefeated in singles, compiling a 4-0 record.“All the freshman coming in have been a breath of fresh air,” Rosekrans said. “That solidarity has really brought us closer together...
...NASA had such a dismal track record since the Apollo program? Reduced funding tells part of the story. The space program received around $40 billion a year (adjusted for inflation) in the mid-1960s, which was at least four percent of the federal budget. But, back then, Americans also had a much greater tolerance for risk: The first successful Apollo mission was launched just eight months after the three astronauts in Apollo 1 died during testing. NASA’s tighter leash today means that riskier programs like nuclear-powered spacecraft don’t make it off the drawing...
...article in the Boston Globe published last month, Drake Bennett calls this last tenet into question. Bennett offers up examples of companies whose goal-driven business models led them to fail, from GM’s ill-fated drive to capture 29 percent of the automobile market to Ford’s disregard for warnings about the combustibility-prone Pinto in its disastrous determination to win back market share. What goes for business goes for life—Bennett quotes Adam Galinsky, a professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, who warns that goal-setting...
Obama, President Barack •blame for financial crisis is not placed on by 60 percent of poll respondents who remember that the collapse of the economy occurred before the election of and thus can hardly be the fault...