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...outcome is far from a sure thing. Enterprise executives say their deep network of relationships in the replacement market and the company's service-focused culture will help it prevail. "Competition isn't a bad thing," says Jim Runnels, senior vice president of rental at Enterprise. "I've seen a lot of companies come and go. One of the reasons we've done as well as we have is that customer service has been our primary focus, and that isn't something that just happens. You have to work very hard at that." Clearly, Hertz doesn't have an easy...
Harvard’s young wrestling team showcased the “mindset of fighting” in Friday’s season opener for team competition against Hofstra, according to junior team captain Mike Baria. Unfortunately for the team, such a mentality was not enough to prevail over the No. 8 Hofstra Pride...
...Commission, and firing its disgraced chair. The opposition agreed that the President would no longer have the power to appoint his Cabinet, though he retains the right to nominate such key posts as Prime Minister, Foreign Minister and Defense Minister. Few doubt that Yushchenko will have the votes to prevail, but he still needs to get people to the polls. So he urged the activists in Independence Square to begin working on the campaign, and the crowd thinned out last week. But a hardy band remains, and they say they're staying put until Yushchenko becomes President. Some...
...talks with Israel. Negotiations are a non-starter unless Abbas can rein in terror attacks - and to do that, he requires the consent of the militant rank and file committed to the intifada, since it's unlikely that he has the political standing even among Palestinian security personnel to prevail in a violent confrontation with the militias. Abbas's preferred method has been to negotiate cease-fire agreements with Hamas - and to the extent that he has succeeded, at least temporarily, in the past, he has relied largely on the efforts of Barghouti, from his prison cell, to bring...
...Harvard sailing team prepares to furl its sails and hang its boats up to dry for the last time this fall, optimism and satisfaction prevail in the Harvard Sailing Center...