Word: priore
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...Tampa Bay Rays, begins on Friday. The first championship series was in 1969, the year baseball added four new franchises: the San Diego Padres, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, and Seattle Pilots (who moved to Milwaukee the following year and became the Brewers) giving both leagues twelve teams each. Prior to that year, the regular season champs from each league went straight to the World Series. So when cellar-dwellers like the New York Mets and the Houston Astros got stuck in ninth or tenth place early in the season, their pennant hopes were crushed by the middle...
...Wall Street didn't sell out America; easy mortgages, no-money-down plasma TVs, trade and budget deficits all existed prior to collateralized debt obligations. The reality is that the entire U.S. economy has been one big fractional-reserve Ponzi scheme for the past 25 years, with bubble after bubble fed by prime lending rates that have not matched the true rate of inflation. Wall Street merely set up massive side bets on the whole scheme and then failed to get out early. The last domino will be the rejection of our currency by shocked foreign debtors. There is only...
...Alvin E. Roth showed by using college football bowl games to analyze inefficient matching in markets. Working with economists M. Utku Ünver and Guillaume R. Fréchette of Boston College and New York University, respectively, the researchers Roth compared the selection of teams for college bowls prior to and after the creation of a team matching system in 1992. The three professors developed the idea to study bowl games while Ünver and Fréchette were research fellows together at the Business School between 2002 and 2003. “Guillaume asked if there...
...Prior to yesterday, the Harvard field hockey team (3-5, 1-1 Ivy) had scored four goals in its last four games. Last night alone, however, the Crimson racked up four goals in a convincing 4-1 win over Vermont at Jordan Field. “We came out with a great mental attitude, ready to play, ready to score goals,” sophomore forward Leigh McCoy said. Early on, the game showed no signs of becoming a blowout. In fact, the Catamounts (5-5, 0-0 America East) were the first team to strike, scoring with 10 minutes...
...addition to previously serving as the health minister in Mexico, Frenk has been a senior fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, he was considered a finalist for the director generalship of the World Health Organization, even winning the endorsement of the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet...