Word: solid
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...scale of the risks they were taking. Tiny C. Hoare & Co. - pretax profit for the year to last April was a modest $32 million, up 8% from the previous year - has prospered over the centuries by keeping it simple. Two-thirds of its income still derives from providing rock-solid banking services - deposit-taking or loans, say - to its wealthy customers through just a pair of London branches. (Investment or financial-planning advice and help with tax or trust issues bring home the rest.) And with the Hoare family's seven managing partners on the hook...
...While it’s easy enough to justify a site like this with a few a solid soundbites—“engaging open discussion” instead of “helping students slack off”—doubts over the legitimacy of TheFinalClub.org still remain. But the professors and TFs that one would expect to oppose the site most are highly supportive...
...team was ranked No. 72 nationally a little over a week ago and as high as No. 51 in late March.“They were ranked the highest in the Ivy League before the season,” Ko said. “They have a pretty solid team, one to six.”After opening the Ancient Eight with two wins over Cornell and Columbia, the Crimson suffered five consecutive league defeats to end the season tied for fifth place.“Overall I think the season’s been a good...
...there were any true believers in such a rosy scenario still to be found within the Democratic party, they were likely disabused of that notion by the results of Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. After six weeks of an increasingly negative contest, Clinton's solid, 10-point victory almost guarantees that the Democratic race will continue into June. The once-gleeful pundits now find themselves turning their rental cars toward Indiana while Republicans marvel at their luck and Democrats try to game out a resolution that doesn't involve a convention-floor battle in Denver...
...seems the other team capitalizes. We just can’t get our breaks.”The Crimson got on the scoreboard first when freshman Sean O’Hara drove in captain Matt Vance with a triple in the fourth inning. O’Hara had a solid day overall, as he knocked two base hits and made a leaping, snow-cone catch at third that prevented an extra-base hit.After the Eagles tied the game back up, Harvard brought home two more runs in the fifth. Sophomore Andrew Prince, who had two knocks on the day, scored...