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...tougher. The working-age population will fall by around 0.7% during 2005-2010 and 1.1% during 2010-2015. Not only will each worker have to support more retirees as a result, the only source for GDP growth will be productivity growth. The government's goal is 2.2% real growth per year through 2015. That would require productivity growth-which has averaged about 1.5% a year for the past 15 years-to rebound to around 2.9% during the next five years and then to 3.3%. Recent productivity figures look good, but these figures always fall during slumps and rise during recoveries...
...routes to America.When Vitus Bering's expedition was shipwrecked in 1741, his crew killed sea otters instead. They returned with 900 luxuriant pelts, setting off the Great Hunt. When the otters were depleted, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. SEA OTTER FUR Built for warmth 1 million hairs per sq. in. Guard Hair Underfur Trapped Air HUMAN SCALP 150,000 hairs total Before 1741, there were as many as 300,000 sea otters on the Pacific Coast. By 1900 only a few colonies remained...
...Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust†offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times for 261 yards while throwing on just 23 plays with sophomore third-string quarterback Jeff Witt making his first career start.But the Crimson never had to ask Witt to do much behind...
...Bears (1-1, 0-1 Ivy) into submission 38-21 before 8,456 fans at Brown Stadium on Saturday.But instead of the ancient “three yards and a cloud of dust†offense, senior running back Clifton Dawson turned his 181 yards at a 7.2 yard per carry clip, including 104 yards and two touchdowns in the first quarter.Harvard ran the ball 44 times for 261 yards while throwing on just 23 plays with sophomore third-string quarterback Jeff Witt making his first career start.But the Crimson never had to ask Witt to do much behind...
...other side of the field was strikingly different.That’s because there were no electrifying plays, no broken-tackles-turned-big-gains, and no big scores on the ground. Only a dominating performance from the Harvard defensive line and a combined team average of just 1.2 yards per carry on the ground for Brown, resulting in a mere 35 net yards.“We have an expression: ‘It’s what’s up front that counts on both sides of the football,†Crimson coach Tim Murphy said after...