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...could practice way more than if we stayed [in Cambridge],” Pollak said of getting the chance to play in California. “We got to feel like how a southern U.S. team could. We were able to get some practice instead of staying stagnant [in Cambridge].” —Staff writer Dixon McPhillips can be reached at fmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...
...control that it was said the land on which the Imperial Palace sat in the center of Tokyo was worth more than the whole of California. Then the bubble burst, banks found that their balance sheets were full of bad loans, and Japan entered a lost decade of stagnant economic growth. Nearly 20 years after its peak in December 1989, when the Nikkei index nearly hit 39,000, the stock market has never come close to recovering. The Nikkei recently touched its lowest point since...
...Cabinet members traveled to Philadelphia to kick off the inaugural gathering of President Barack Obama's Middle Class Task Force. The task force will convene monthly in cities across the country to confront the problems faced by average Americans. It's an admirable goal - in light of rising costs, stagnant wages and job cuts, a Pew Research study found that 78% of self-described middle-class Americans have trouble maintaining their current standard of living...
...House of Representatives approved significant increases in funding for scientific research Wednesday, moving one step closer to reversing years of stagnant grant money long criticized by Harvard and other research centers. The bill would add $3.5 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which serves as the most significant source of the University’s federal research funding by far. The legislation would also give an additional $3 billion to the National Science Foundation, another key financial backer. The increases are part of a broader $819 billion economic stimulus package passed by the House. The Senate...
...dorky kid whom nobody sat next to at lunch. Parsons had some success at Time Warner - he removed 'AOL' from the company's name and streamlined its business practices - but by the time he stepped down in 2008 the media behemoth was still saddled with underperforming departments and a stagnant share price. The question now is, what can he do for Citi? (See the best business deals...