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Harvard’s long-range success was a pleasant turnaround for a traditionally hot-shooting squad—a team which, this year, has seen its three-point attempts total rise and success rate plummet. Delaney-Smith said that the Crimson has been trying to better its team balance in recent weeks...
...Clipped Wings Paying the price for two years of rapid capacity growth, low-cost airline Ryanair announced profits for the current fiscal year would plummet by as much as 10% - the Irish carrier's first profit warning since going public...
...winter of doubt, characterized by a mountain of negative news, including the cover stories of both Time and Newsweek in the same week of January: “Doubts About Dean” and “Who Is the Real Dean?” Dean’s plummet followed close behind. If John Kerry pulls out a victory in New Hampshire, part of it will be because the press hasn’t gotten around to developing a negative narrative for him. As long as the events can outpace the media’s ability to construct...
...with a weaker peso and a stagnant economy that is hemorrhaging factory jobs to China, resulted in the pan losing more than 50 seats in the 500-member lower house of Congress in last July's midterm elections. At the same time, Fox has had to watch his stock plummet in Washington, where he was once feted as Bush's cowboy-boot-wearing friend. But after Sept. 11, Bush turned his back on Fox's immigration- reform ideas as a threat to U.S. border security. Mexico was all but forgotten in the U.S. - until late 2002, when the country opposed...
...with the wireless revolution, phone companies have to beat 'em or join 'em--at the risk of cannibalizing their own business by pitching VOIP services to their customers. But even if the phone companies' long-distance revenues plummet--Vijay Bhagavath of Forrester Research figures that a company with 10,000 employees can reduce its long-distance bill 70%--some of that lost revenue can probably be regained over the long term through value-added services that the voice-data combination is just beginning to make possible. For that reason, most of the major phone companies--AT&T, BellSouth, Qwest Communications...