Word: starks
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...stark contrast to its performance on Saturday against Brown, the Crimson had trouble finding the net against BC, let alone the back of it. Harvard ended the first period with only four shots on Eagle netminder Matti Kaltiainen. In fact, through two periods the Crimson managed only nine shots...
...capital is its potent lobby. It maintains more than 600 lobbyists--more than one for every member of Congress. It spent $435 million to influence Washington from 1996 to 2003 and handed out $57.9 million in contributions from 1991 to 2002, according to Common Cause. Says Representative Pete Stark, a California Democrat who has waged a decade-long war for lower Medicare drug prices, a move that government auditors say could save taxpayers nearly $1 billion a year: "These guys are awfully good. I only wish they were on the right side of the issues. They don't care about...
...ARENA: Joe Klein contrasts the stark lyricism of the young John Kerry with the stiff style of the self-conscious speechmaker who wants to be President today...
DIED. RAY STARK, 88, powerful Hollywood producer who had long associations with Barbra Streisand and Neil Simon; in West Hollywood. For his first film, Funny Girl, based on his real-life mother-in-law, Fanny Brice, he chose Streisand over established stars after hearing her sing in a New York City nightclub. His long career included more than 125 films, among them The Goodbye Girl, Annie and Steel Magnolias...
...ever with L'Oreal, innovation is as likely to dominate the company's thinking as where to find the next group of willing consumers. In 2002 L'Oreal spent $594 million on research--about 3% of turnover and double that of its nearest rivals. In the stark laboratory not far from the Paris headquarters, for example, scientists are coming at the dermis from both sides--developing skin products that are applied externally as well as those that are ingested. High above the earth, a European space-agency satellite is transmitting data to L'Oreal about where global-pollution levels...