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...Without Google in Yahoo!'s corner, Yang would never have been bold enough to try and squeeze an extra $4 per share out of Microsoft. By all accounts, he genuinely believed that it was a win-win situation: either he would exact a premium from Microsoft or he would team up with Google, which would sell ads against the world's most-visited website and revive its fortunes. How could Yahoo! lose...
...output levels, drove exceptional income growth, though these big spenders weren't big savers. The generations that have followed represent a smaller share of the overall population. Thus as boomers age, the overall workforce will shrink. "Without an unexpected burst of productivity growth or a significant upsurge in investment per worker, the aging boomers' reduced levels of working and spending will slow the real growth of the U.S. GDP from an average of 3.2% a year since 1965 to about 2.4% over the next three decades," says the MGI report. That growth rate is 25% lower than...
...bring the nation’s infrastructure into a state of good repair. Looking at merely one subcategory of these projects—transportation infrastructure—the Department of Transportation estimates that in order to simply maintain current highway and bridge conditions, it will cost $78.7 billion per year. Unfortunately, in reporting on the current state of US infrastructure, the ASCE gave it a ‘D,’ thereby indicating that simply maintaining it will not be sufficient. DOT estimates assert that the required amount for eliminating the backlog of projects for bridges and fulfilling proposed...
...tackle great, for one thing.”A sack, an incompletion, and a short completion spelled another three-and-out for the Crimson’s offense, which had an uncharacteristically weak day, gaining just 261 yards of total offense, significantly below the 412 yards per game Harvard averaged prior to the contest.“We didn’t have much of a rhythm on offense,” Pizzotti said. “They’re basically one of the best defenses in the league and the country, and I think we saw why today...
...Crimson’s charged offense to just one goal, an impressive performance against a team that had scored five goals the previous night against Clarkson. The strong performance made the seven penalties the Crimson incurred on the night that much costlier. Harvard is averaging more that eight penalties per game this season, a mark that has to change for the Crimson to continue to find success. Unless Harvard can find a way to avoid unnecessary penalties, Hoyle, the team’s excellent defense, and the penalty kill will be the team’s only hope at keeping...