Word: priore
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...game, Steve Moore had a few words and a courteous hand-shake for referee Tim Catyra. Prior to the string of penalties against Harvard, Moore was driven into the boards head first by a Colgate player but the referee declined to make a boarding call on the play...
Dartmouth, located in the town of Hanover N.H., population 10,000, has been largely crime free for decades. In 1991, two Dartmouth graduate students were murdered by a spurned lover. Prior to that, police say Hanover had not had a murder in 40 years...
...index has lost more than 28 points since September and is now at its lowest level since December 1996. And the expectations index, measuring what the survey's 5,000 families see coming in the next six months, was downright apocalyptic, plummeting to 77 in January from 96.9 the prior month, and is now at its lowest level since October 1993. People see fewer jobs, lower investment profits, and less reason to buy anything...
...Conference Board director of consumer research Lynn Franco said what was on everyone's lips on the Street when the news hit: The expectations index is now in "territory normally seen prior to a recession." Translation: When layoffs, cutbacks, slowing growth and the r-word start to imprint themselves on the public mind, folks stop spending, and dread quickly becomes reality. (The last such sharp drop in the index? Right before the 1990 recession...
Though he has spent the last eight years as a public servant and policymaker, Summers is a highly regarded academic and has the all-important Harvard connection--a prior affiliation with the University that makes him more appealing as a candidate and gives him backers on the inside. And with his extensive experience on the national stage, colleagues think Summers might be the man with the vision to use Harvard's bully pulpit to its full advantage...