Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become so commonplace throughout the years that it's almost routine--the Harvard women's soccer team has won yet another important game. By virtue of a 2-0 shutout of UMass in the first round of the NCAA tournament yesterday, the Crimson have vaulted themselves one step closer to the National Championship and extended their current winning streak to seven games...
...first round, Harvard was paired up with fifth seed Columbia...
...this impatience strikes Calley and colleagues as hardly fair. Once pathetic Sony Pictures is flush these days, having just become one of only two studios ever to gross $1 billion in a year (Disney has done it three times). Even without a cartoon lion, Sony reached that nice, round number in record time (Aug. 31, beating Disney's best date--Nov. 23--by a stretch). And Sony expects to surpass the industry record of $1.22 billion, if it can scrape up the remainder on films such as Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi thriller Starship Troopers (a picture it's splitting...
...Americas. "Levi's strength is that it is never the most fashionable but the most relevant." But that has cost the company. Levi Strauss's U.S. sales last year hit $4.3 billion, but fierce competition and a leveling off of demand forced it to announce last week a round of belt-tightening measures. The company will close 11 factories in four states and lay off 34% of its North American workforce. Levi's, which has nurtured a culture of progressive corporate responsibility, cushioned the bad news with a $200 million severance package, including extended benefits...
Harvard's history of meeting UMass in the NCAA tournament extends beyond last year. In 1994, the Crimson also fell prey to the Minutewomen in the first round by a score of 3-0. And in 1984, Harvard met UMass in the first round and lost...