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...wrestle again until the last weekend in January when it faces Army and Lehigh. Ivy meets will begin early February, when the Crimson travels to face top rivals Princeton and Penn. They plan to continue training hard despite the break and to use this trip's experience as a springboard for Ivy competition...
...point where there's the potential for a lot of good to be done for the society and by the society," Bodell said. "We've had a very, very successful new crop of individuals getting involved in the organization, so from that I think we'll springboard a lot of new ideas, initiatives and projects...
...eager to ride this trend often turn to Amazon after starting out as satisfied online buyers of its books--and now of its music CDs, videos and gifts. The company has spent heavily to establish a brand name and reputation from scratch, with no brick-and-mortar stores to springboard its efforts. "Brand name is critically important to retailing, and Amazon paid dearly for it," notes Marie LaTour Kadison, senior analyst at Forrester. "They knew it was imperative [to establish a brand identity] before companies like Barnes & Noble and Borders came online...
...Democratic Party trekked to a hotel ballroom last week to take part in the first, unofficial scrimmage of the 2000 campaign. The occasion was the annual conference of the Democratic Leadership Council, the organization of self-described "New Democrat" centrists that Bill Clinton used both as a springboard to the nomination in 1992 and as an idea factory for such once un-Democratic proposals as reforming welfare and balancing the federal budget. Back then, the DLC was the home of malcontents frustrated by the party establishment's leftist orthodoxy -- and by its tendency to put forward sure-loser candidates like...
...There is no Harvard-specific reason for starting AEPi...it's college in general," he says. "I want to use the frat as a springboard for giving back to the community...