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...been for two years:? propping up consumers' spirits - and spending - while the rest of the economy lies exhausted on the floor, still trying to struggle to its feet. Standing proud amid the glum procession of economic indicators and Wall Street selloffs in the past week have been stellar year-end numbers from the Commerce Department in housing starts (up 5 percent to a 1.835 million-unit annual rate in December, the highest since 1978), new home sales (up 3.5 percent to an annualized 1.08 million, a new record) and existing home sales (up 5 percent to 5.56 million...
Dunster House Master Roger B. Porter, who sent an email to fellow Dunsterites encouraging them to watch Saturday’s game, agreed that the play was typical of his stellar resident...
...Asia and South America. Wal-Mart made a dream debut in the U.K. with the $10.7 billion acquisition of ASDA in mid-1999, where it discovered a company almost perfectly in tune with its Every Day Low Price (EDLP) culture. But expansion in Germany has been less than stellar, delaying, perhaps, Wal-Mart's move into the rest of Europe. Wal-Mart reached Europe in 1998 when it bought Germany's Wertkauf. A year later it added Interspar, and then mangled the merger in almost every way possible. "We could write a training manual about our experiences in Germany," Scott...
...Basically, this is a combination of many experiences from last semester,” he said. “I’ve had a less than stellar academic career so far, not because of grades, but because professors seem unconcerned about my performance...
...Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, John Putnam extols the value of his name, telling others that he can’t let dishonesty tarnish his stellar reputation. In the crucible of academic pressure that exists at Harvard, however, many students put their names on the line every semester in the interest of making the grade. Many would argue that they don’t even have the chance to keep their shreds of honesty, as Harvard doesn’t always do a good job making it clear what acts count as an academic transgression...