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...play the Tigers (10-1, 4-0) Saturday in Princeton, N.J. for its fourth conference game of the season, but Harvard fell on hard luck against consistently nationally-ranked Princeton. “We did not play the way we needed to compete, and we paid the price,” junior defender Delia Pais wrote in an e-mail. “We started slow, played slow, ended slow. It was a game we just didn’t show up for.” While the Crimson offense boasts the top two scorers in the Ivy League?...
...Consumers of television programs often have only one or two price points to choose from if they want a full television season: either free, if they download illegally, or more than $20 if they choose iTunes, DVD, or Blu-ray. There are far more consumers at $0 than at $20, even though consuming at $0 takes on a criminal hue. Those willing to buy at some price in between are completely ignored. Abroad, where a viewer can only consume at $0, the choice is obvious. The television industry risks annihilation in the near future, but the enterprise certainly should...
...home. "For Denny's, the core consumers are blue-collar families," says Anton Brenner, restaurant analyst at Roth Capital Partners. "They've been squeezed very hard." In the fourth quarter of 2008, same-store sales dropped 6.1%. Sales fell 3.7% for the year, and the company's stock price, at $2.14 a share, has dropped 30.5% over the past 12 months. "It wasn't a good year for us," Marchioli admits...
...banking crisis may be over, but what is left is a reclamation job that will probably take years to complete, will still have a taxpayer price tag of over $1 trillion, and will leave America's largest financial firms as institutions of modest power and a regulated scope which will prevent them from looking anything like what they did two years...
...aspect to controlling medical expenses is managing the price of drugs. The government has announced it will set price controls on medicines deemed to be essential, likely based on a list of 300 to 400 drugs recommended by the World Health Organization, the state-run Xinhua news service reported. Since market reforms were introduced in the 1980s, hospitals began relying on advanced procedures and drug sales to make money. Individual spending on pharmaceuticals rose as a result, and experts argue that profits sometimes drive what doctors prescribe. "When drugs take up 50% of health expenditures - two times more than other...