Word: slews
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...Fields has few options. The luxury market is getting ever more crowded as automakers, competing for the business of baby boomers entering their peak buying years, launch a slew of new models. Analysts estimate that margins on PAG brands now hover around 1%--compared with almost 9% at BMW--and that narrowing the gap will be a critical factor in how long Fields lasts in this job. At Mazda, he says, "I was very clear about confronting reality, focusing on accountability and execution." It's a game plan he hopes will work as well in London...
...whispering that the team wasn't merely incompetent. Rumor has it that players, including star defender Fan Zhiyi, threw the match against Costa Rica, a 2-0 defeat, to make a little cash. A boom in illegal sports gambling has tainted China's soccer league, which uncovered a slew of crooked referees and players fixing games last year. But Fan adamantly denies any wrongdoing, and soccer pundits speculate that Chinese authorities may be encouraging the controversy to discredit him. One of the few Chinese players to make it overseas, Fan, who plays for the Scottish side Dundee, has criticized...
...Emblem is the most unlikely Triple Crown hopeful since Seattle Slew in 1977. Reineman couldn't get the $20,000 he asked for the horse as a yearling, so War Emblem went to work at places like Sportsman's Park in Illinois, a course known as a bullring. It's a short track with tight turns and bumper car tactics that tend to limit long-striding horses like War Emblem. The horse did well enough so that over the winter Reineman reportedly tried to dump him for $300,000 but again found no takers. Then War Emblem won the Illinois...
...heartbroken by the loss of my favorite racehorse of all time, Seattle Slew [MILESTONES, May 20]. He was special for the number of races he won and the winners he sired. He deserved to have a perfect retirement, to be out in the pasture every day, looking around and feeling the breeze in his mane. Maybe he wasn't able to race any longer, but he could enjoy the view and have a good time. He had a great heart, immense courage and the determination to win any race in any weather, under any track conditions. He always showed...
...With a slew of deliciously articulate quotes and good factual documentation indicating that Harvard was probably wrong in letting the incident slide, I wrote my story and went to bed anticipating a campus steeped in outrage...