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...quick to agree with some of this, claiming that it did indeed make money by fulfilling its fixed-cost contracts at a lower cost and a quicker pace than projected. In effect, it argues, the Pentagon is complaining that an efficient company benefited from cost underruns, rather than being faced with cost overruns. The whole point of these contracts, argues G.E., is to give the supplier an incentive to perform better. "There were no cost overruns and no overcharging," declared Brian Rowe, a G.E. vice president. "The Government did not pay one cent more than it contracted to pay." Both...
...Harvard women's lacrosse team yesterday suffered its worst defeat in six years, succumbing to a quicker and more talented Loyola squad, 15-6, in the season opener for both squads...
With smaller, quicker men guarding Ferry for much of the period, Smith, though not exactly left alone, was able to elude the larger--and slower--Bruins...
Ralph: Au contraire, my ideological one. The smile is a famed instrument of social bonding, and females are simply better at it than males. Women's greater tendency to smile seems built in by evolution, probably as one tool to make them respond quicker and better to infants. Umpteen studies show that little girls are organized to respond better to people than little boys. They are more sensitive to the crying of other infants, and even in the first two or three days of life, they spend much more time smiling than newborn boys do. Doubtless this is an early...
When a little-regarded entity suddenly begins to assert itself, one of three things will happen; either it will be stepped on and crushed quicker than the Czechoslovakians in '68, its presence among the elite will be protested or fought, or it will force the others to step aside and make room...