Word: quarters
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...Despite the loss, Harvard managed to hold Davis to only five goals, a special feat since the only other team to do so was No. 1 Stanford earlier this month. HARVARD 12, UC SANTA CRUZ 8Earlier in the day, the Crimson also found itself down in the first quarter, trailing the Division III Banana Slugs (11-12), 3-1. But with a barrage of shots from Harvard’s drivers, the Crimson went on a 4-0 run and took a 5-3 advantage. Although Santa Cruz tied the game, Harvard pulled away thanks to six saves from McCarthy...
...unaffected. Shafir says none of the hundred bankers who work in his division have left the firm on their own. And the firm is expected to rank among the top global M&A advisers when the so-called League Tables that rank investment banks come out for the first quarter of 2009 in the next week...
Several tests of investor optimism will come in the weeks ahead, as U.S. companies begin reporting first quarter earnings (or losses). Moreover, the U.S. Treasury will probably make public the results of the bank stress tests that it has conducted in recent weeks. If stocks perform well in the face of bad quarterly numbers, or mixed news on the stress tests, market analysts will take that as a strong indicator that investor sentiment is truly turning...
Work the Program Given that we've brought on the current crises through a quarter-century of self-destructive financial excess and overdependence on debt and fossil fuels, during the same quarter-century we've all become familiar with a way of thinking about self-destructive excess and dependence. The vocabulary of addiction recovery could come in handy just now. We are like substance abusers coming off a long bender, hitting bottom (we can only hope) and taking the messes we've made as a sobering wake-up call. I've always thought many of the 12 Steps were superfluous...
...bursting, a possible depression and the election - possibly their election - of an African-American President: the makings, frankly, of a healthier, more useful generational creation myth than assassinations, antiwar protests and countercultural bacchanalia (which, by the way, enabled the risk-taking, party-hearty, quasi-utopian paradigm of the past quarter-century). In other words, the kids are all right. (Read stories from people who lived through the Great Depression...