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Harvard needed a way to meet both the construction unions' desire for a good job and the University's desire for fast, quality work at a decent price for an institution also feeling the pinch of the recession...
University officials, though, says that the unions can be more competitive in their pricing and must realize that management as well as unions are feeling a financial pinch...
...adjust to whatever other firms are doing. The system simply assigns the transaction to the marketmaker with the highest bid or lowest offer at the time. Result: if a Merrill Lynch specialist happens to be away from his desk when a stock starts moving, a savvy bartender could swiftly pinch $250 from his hide for every quarter-point change in price. Without the automated system, Houtkin's clients would have to call brokers and have them place orders with a marketmaker. By the time all that was done, the price gap would probably have vanished...
...fighters call this the "bicycle path," a narrow strip of bitterly contested ground cutting for nearly 150 miles through north central Bosnia to connect the Serb stronghold of Doboj to Serbia proper. Muslim and Croat lines ) pinch the corridor on both its eastern and western flanks. Daily shelling empties the town much of the day; by early afternoon the only sound on the main boulevard is the flapping of plastic sheets that cover shop windows shattered by artillery rounds. But when dusk closes in, fighters and young girls venture out to meet at a small park, whispering beneath the pine...
...king who is the son of a compulsive gambler and has an eye disease that could make him blind; who in his late 30s took up steer roping, wind surfing, rock climbing, motocrossing, jet skiing and body building; who once called Donald Trump "twinkle toes"; who let Frank Sinatra pinch his cheek in a commercial for his casinos; who divorced his wife, never moved out and remarried her five years later; and who shot off his index finger two years ago while handling a pistol in his office...