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Depending on the small college market could ultimately sink Microfridge, Inc., said Chuck Ryan, an industry analyst at Merrill Lynch. Ryan also said the retail price was high enough to be a probable stumbling block...
...Crimson blew 16th-ranked Army out of the water, 8-6, in the first round Saturday but could not manage to sink top-seeded Navy later in the day. The 11th-ranked Midshipmen eked out a 10-8 victory to advance to the championship game of the tournament. In the title game, Navy defeated Brown...
...cold rain began falling. "The infantryman slithers in the mud, while many teams of horses are needed to drag each gun forward," one German general recounted. "All wheeled vehicles sink up to their axles in slime." The first snow fell on Oct. 6. A month later, the temperatures fell below zero. Tank engines began to freeze. The troops, who had been issued no winter clothing, suffered frostbite...
Urban thinker William H. Whyte has read endless obituaries of the American city. He has heard it called everything from "an ecological smear" to a "behavioral sink." The future, he has been told, is elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying...
...Americans' sense of horror and outrage has been numbed. Death by gunfire has become nearly as banal in the U.S. as auto fatalities; shootings are so routine that they are sometimes ignored by the local news. Only by coming face to face with the needless victims does the wastefulness sink...