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Knotted with the Pride at 27, the Crimson let the first game slip out of its grasp, conceding three consecutive points as freshman outside hitter Juan Ramos committed a service error and the Pride tallied two kills...
...game began to slip away, Sullivan pleaded with his team to try to deaden the pace. On one trip down the floor, junior point guard Elliott Prasse-Freeman turned towards the Harvard bench and acknowledged his coach’s instructions...
...sustainable, not with countries like China gradually taking over this role." According to a recent study by the Japan Research Institute, an economic think tank, if Japanese companies continue to shift production to China at the rate they are now, Japan's envied $48.96 billion trade surplus will slip away entirely and become a deficit within five years. "Japan has to move up the economic ladder, and shift trade from goods to services and intellectual property," Xie says, "unless it wants to go back to being a poor country again...
Carly Fiorina, the frenetic CEO of Hewlett Packard, is a case study in bad leadership. In a company that famously values its employees, especially its scientists, to the point of never resorting to layoffs in bad times, Fiorina gave thousands of engineers the pink slip soon after taking the helm at HP. Then, believing that the best way to fix an ailing, giant company is to merge it with another ailing, giant company and hope for “synergy,” she announced a merger with Compaq, a move that is generating boardroom chaos even now, eight months...
...they deserved gold, what happened? Skating judges are as close-mouthed as Secret Service agents about their decisions, so we many never know what they saw in the Russian pair that they didn't in the Canadian duo. Five of them ranked the Russsians for gold, despite Sikharulidze's slip on the double axel jump and Berezhnaya's skittery landings on the throw jumps. Sikharulidze, for his part, defended their performance and their finish. "I try hard, I try my best," he said. "We don't make big mistakes. No falls, no big mistakes. The something with my jump...