Word: strides
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...girls school,” Fendell says, “but I can turn it around on them too, talking about how the ratio is so much in our favor.” Members of both sexes seem to be taking the transition pretty much in stride. Perhaps the past presence of boys on campus (from the Art Institute of Boston [AIB], a partner school) has made this year’s changes seem less dramatic...
...Coach Burke] has taken it in stride,” Hegge says...
...over the company as a project for his retirement--or perhaps to avoid it. A self-proclaimed clotheshorse, Siegel had made a name for himself during his 29-year career at Levi Strauss, where he launched the hugely successful Dockers brand in 1986. Siegel left Levi's to run Stride Rite, then headed south to Charleston, S.C., to contemplate retirement. But, he says, "those thoughts lasted like two minutes." He took on a few consulting jobs. Among them was Devanlay, the global apparel licensor of Lacoste, a brand that had been so badly managed in America that it was eventually...
...team to beat this season. Earning that distinction on the field, however, might be a tougher task. Penn meets its two most difficult Ivy opponents—Brown and Harvard—on the road and must close out the year with a pesky Cornell squad that found its stride down the stretch last season. Penn doesn’t appear to have improved enough to take down the Crimson in Cambridge, and it probably won’t be able to dodge all the bullets he did the year before, so the Quakers should finish the year with...
...Chambers Columbus, Georgia, U.S. You wrote about the safety concerns plaguing nasa's space-shuttle program [Aug. 8]. I was among the millions of people around the world who watched the touchdown of the shuttle Discovery on television. The craft's journey to space and back was another stride in mankind's effort to unravel the mystery of the universe. We hope the benefits from the efforts in space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living. How we wish that the billions of dollars...