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...there will be some stiff competition this year,” Bienvenu said. “The team will be looking to runners, like freshman Sean Barrett, to fill out our top-five scorers. Right now we’re in a position to upset a number of teams in the league...
...increased the supply of low-cost coal, lowered electricity prices, improved the efficiency of coal-fired generators and been environmentally friendly. What's more, according to the Council for Energy Independence, the credit "has created new jobs in an otherwise shrinking business." Those jobs come with a stiff price: at least $200,000 from taxpayers for each...
...radio tuner. Better yet are two movie-download services and a program that lets you burn DVDs by using just the remote control. The user interface could still be improved, but with living-room-friendly PCs coming from Dell, Gateway and others, even DVD-equipped TiVos will face stiff competition this holiday season...
...reasons George W. Bush chose to fight it. The highest-ranking U.S. general in Iraq, Ricardo Sanchez, last week admitted that the Iraqi guerrillas were growing more effective and predicted even more lethal attacks in the near future. Bush has not helped matters with his continuing spew of stiff-necked platitudes, but he has been resolute, so far, about American postwar responsibilities. "We have a moral responsibility to leave Iraq better than we found it," a high-ranking Administration official told me last week. Morals often take a backseat to practicalities in the heat of an election, though...
...best part--and the part that should appeal to the thank-God-it's-Friday working stiff--is that having fun pays off for everyone. Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, thinks executives like Zimmer at Men's Wearhouse are nothing short of brilliant. "If you have a bunch of surly employees who would rather have a proctological exam than wait on you, then you won't want to shop in the store," he says. "It's hard to build and maintain a positive culture...