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...less than subliminal message is that Japan Inc. is buying up America, a point underscored by the ubiquity of headlines portraying Japan -- as distinguished from Japanese individuals or companies -- snapping up American treasures. Similar coverage greeted OPEC in the 1970s, when Arab oil sheiks seemed ready to slap down their petrodollars and pick up America piece by piece. Yet even the most alarmist press scenarios of that era did not envision oil merchants daring to seize the home of the nation's Christmas tree...
Just over a minute later, Providence scored again as freshman forward Michelle Johansson batted a high slap shot by defender Kelly O'Leary down into the net. With the bizarre goal, the game was quickly becoming a rout...
However, Harvard's hopes of turning the game around were quickly dashed less than a minute later, when Beagan slightly deflected a slap shot by Friar defender Lisa Paccione into the Crimson...
...have this little ritual before each game," Landau says. "We like to slap our sticks together and give each other high fives. It motivates us for the game...
...economics award for his work in econometrics: "Haavelmo had a tremendous influence on me and on many other young econometricians in the 1940s." Concurred Robert Solow of the Massachusetts $ Institute of Technology, the 1987 laureate: "It's like giving the Nobel Prize for Physics to Thomas Edison. You slap your forehead and wonder why they didn't do it sooner...