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...voice cracking, eyes watering with delight. "I wanted to fly under the Bridge. So there I am, wondering whether the Bridge is 100 or 300 feet above the water. I turn, I'm heading for the Bridge, flying under 50 feet, the plane is vibrating, the ground-proximity radar is going off. I'm trying to keep the whole thing above the water. And I did! It was exhilarating." After a long, deep laugh, he pauses. He flicks the switch from nostalgia to cold reality. "I'm probably crazy thinking I can make this thing work...
When Arun Sarin, CEO of British mobile-phone operator Vodafone, flew to New Delhi last month to announce a $1.5 billion investment in India, he signaled that the country was back on the radar of the telecom giants. In the 1990s, American and European companies--including Vodafone--rushed in. They soon rediscovered an old problem: India's government was less business friendly than advertised. Vodafone sold off a stake in an Indian regional mobile-phone operator in 2003; many other foreign companies left...
...variability of the evaluations of talent also can create difficulties, as it is common for recruits with high expectations to flop and for true talents to slip almost completely off the radar...
Cusworth’s fellow Player of the Year candidate, senior forward Matt Stehle, had to take a similar pro-active approach to get himself on the radar of certain Ivy schools...
...HARVARD has been reaching out to less affluent applicants since the early 1930s, when University President James B. Conant ’14 sought to recruit promising students from schools that normally flew below the Northeast prep radar. Committees of alumni were organized throughout the country to help find candidates for new National Scholarships funded by the College...