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Three years after their industry was reportedly in big trouble, commercial banks had their second-best quarter ever this year. Federal regulators say those institutions earned $11.2 billion in the quarter that ended this June, just shy of the record $11.5 billion they made in the third quarter of last year. Still, this blip may not be part of a long-term turnaround trend, says TIME assistant editor Bernard Baumohl, who covers the economy. "In the past two or three years, the Federal Reserve gave banks a great gift: it held interest rates at very low levels," he says. Lower...
...Princeton loss, an extremely hard-fought contest against the second-best team in the league, seemed to signal a Crimson turnaround, and the team's performances in the next three contests--the last of the season--confirmed that premonition...
...anything less than at least second-best...
...course, if Brown's Geoff Finch (his .906 save pct. is the league's second-best) has anything to say about it, that won't matter. In 125 minutes against the Cats, Finch let in only three goals, and Gilligan has concerns about his team's ability to score...
Little's brilliant tending (14-5-4, 3.22 GAA) is a major reason that the Engineers are the second-best defensive team in the ECAC. RPI has a 3.22 goals-against-average in the ECAC, second only to Harvard's 2.56 GAA. Little has stopped an amazingly-high 94 percent of all shots thrown at him in the ECAC...