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...competition for talented minority applicants gets steeper among the nation's top universities, other schools are taking their message to the road as well...
...Asia isn't just sinking, it's sinking in. "The more the analysts learn, the less they like," says Manley. That's why the stock market has gone nowhere. The bad news is that when profit momentum swings from plus to minus, it is usually accompanied by steeper stock declines than what we've seen. Look out below! The good news is that it's still too early to know if the profit cycle is really turning. We can hope that the current shenanigans ultimately represent nothing more than the fleeting worries of people who watch for such things. Indeed...
Following the Harvard men's lacrosse team this year was like riding the world's fastest roller coaster--just when you thought the Crimson had cleared its worst hair-raising drop, it slowly climbed up an even steeper hill and went screaming down into even more nauseating depths...
...former Tennessee governor hopes that his southern base will help him to a desperately-needed first-place primary finish. Dole also stumped in Georgia after reorganizing his struggling campaign. In a weekend shakeup, Dole demoted deputy campaign chairman Bill Lacy, while adding former 1992 Bush campaign pollster Fred Steeper to his staff...
...Another thing is that the learning curve for younger musicians is a lot steeper...Ben, our tenor sax player, who just started playing six months before I met him, is so much better...