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Introduced to make polyurethane foam boards more rigid, the stringer (usually made of wood) has migrated to other parts of the board and to other materials. Full or tapered, sharp or rounded, rails (where the deck meets the bottom) are also taking a turn--for a better one on waves...
...graduation.Outside of the paper’s 14 Plympton Street offices, she was a government concentrator, a correspondent for the Radcliffe Quarterly, and a member of the Harvard Policy Committee. She was elected a class marshal her senior year.As an undergraduate, Greenhouse also worked as a stringer for The Boston Herald, which ultimately refused to even interview her for a post-college job because she was a woman.But in the face of gender bias, Greenhouse fought back. Her junior year, she helped lead a successful campaign to get Radcliffe students access to Lamont Library.HER LIFE AND TIMESGreenhouse?...
...articles reported that a $40,000 loan program constituted a 300 percent increase in financial aid for the Class of 1958.To make ends meet, Rosenthal worked two hours every night at the Adams House Dining Hall in addition to his work on the Crimson and as a stringer for the Herald.“The wonderful thing about the Herald Tribune was that in addition to stringer fees they paid $30 a month,” he says. “It was a fortune to me.”A Crimson colleague and friend, Charles M. Giker...
HOUSTON—Playing in an NFL game was new to St. Louis Rams rookie quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick ’05. Coming back from a 21-point deficit wasn’t.The Rams’ third-stringer took over for injured backup Jamie Martin yesterday, then threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Curtis in overtime to cap an improbable comeback and give the Rams a 33-27 win over the Houston Texans.The seventh-round pick and last year’s Ivy League Player of the Year stayed calm by thinking back to his freshman year...
Sharp's momentum has been a drag for struggling Sony, which recently brought in a non-Japanese CEO, Howard Stringer, to orchestrate a turnaround. Sony also demonstrates Machida's theory: the company has lost its primacy in TVs, and it shows. In July, Sony reported a quarterly loss of $330 million in its consumer-electronics division. Sharp, meanwhile, posted operating profits of $138 million for its consumer-products division...