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Both businesses had attracted criticism for their sluggish response to changing consumer tastes, but it didn't matter much in fat years - and British retailers have enjoyed some very fat years. In June, government figures showed that free-spending British families had racked up debts equivalent to 173% of their incomes, by far the highest ratio of debt to income among G7 nations. That's one reason why the IMF has predicted a sharper contraction in Britain than in other advanced economies...
...more courses that actually count toward General Education. “Harvard time”—the colloquial name given our unofficial seven-minute lateness-amnesty window—is a venerable institution here. We question, then, why would anyone deign change it? Are students truly so sluggish that seven minutes is an insufficient ambulatory period? We are rarely late to our classes. Perhaps it’s because our bodies are in peak physical condition. Or maybe it’s just because we rarely attend class. But why bother going, or changing the duration...
...find our identity as we had last year. It was a great effort tonight, and that’s something the kids can hold their heads up high about and be proud of how hard they worked tonight.” While both teams started off a bit sluggish in the early going, Brine broke through on an unassisted effort with around three minutes to go in the first period. She picked off a Union pass inside the Dutchwomen’s zone, skated wide right around a defender, and pushed the puck past the Union keeper and into...
...assist to lead the Crimson, which now holds a 5-0 record at home and sits atop the Ivy League.“Right now you have to get results. And we got a good result today,” coach Jamie Clark said.Harvard got off to a sluggish start in the first half, failing to muster much pressure on the Providence side of the pitch. “We just came off a pretty hard game against Princeton; it’s a midweek game—it’s hard sometimes to get up for these...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...