Word: sprint
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...shucks manner, Ebbers had come to prefer the glamour of dealmaking to the quotidian work of integrating and running a complex business. "At one time we had more than 40 different billing systems," grouses a former high-level WorldCom executive. Ebbers' solution? Keep buying. His latest target was Sprint, but U.S. and European regulators told him no, a setback that accelerated WorldCom's decline...
Harvard retained the same margin through the third 500, but picked up the pace though the sprint in the final 500 meters to win by about a boat length, posting a 2.8-second victory...
...also gain speed as the boats adjust to the new lineups, as the strokes of both the first and second varsity boats were racing their first races as stroke. The Crimson has the next two weeks to settle into the new lineups as the boats prepare for the EARC Sprint Championships on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester, Mass...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers watched with his daughter, Ruth, BU started its sprint 10 strokes early. Even that, though, couldn’t faze Radcliffe on this day, as it continued pulling away through the finish, eventually winning by two lengths in 6:43.3, its fastest time on the Charles this spring...
...1990s, Janet Reno’s Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took an active role in policing large mergers, in the name of protecting consumer interest. Under their watch, the mergers of Sprint and Worldcom, Office Depot and Staples, and United Air Lines and U.S. Air were all blocked. The FTC even blocked the merger of Meade and Celestron, two hobbyist telescope manufacturers who competed in a market totaling a few million dollars in sales per year. Retrospectively, it’s unclear what benefit, if any, the public received from these blocked mergers since most...