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...order to avoid a Tuesday preliminary round match-up in a week and a half, the Crimson will have to bounce up to sixth place. Not only must the team surpass Colgate and Union, but it must also fend off St. Lawrence and Dartmouth which hang dangerously below Harvard in the standings...
...carries painful political baggage for North Korea, which was forced to back down earlier this week from its official "socialist paradise" ideology with a public admission that severe grain harvest shortfalls were causing "temporary food problems." Relief workers warn that North Korea is headed toward a famine which would surpass even the 1985 Ethiopian food crisis, with potential victims numbering in the tens of millions...
...days before investors stepped on the accelerator again, sending the Dow Jones industrial average into uncharted territory. So brokerage and investment-banking firms and their employees are whooping it up with perfectly rational exuberance: they are closing the books on their most profitable year ever. Year-end bonuses will surpass even those of the best years of the junk-bond infused, too-much-is-never-enough 1980s. "It's obscene," admits a bond trader, "unless you're on the receiving...
...cart before the horse, but in Hollywood the cart and horse have been near equal partners ever since Star Wars demonstrated that revenues from film-related action figures, magnets and whatnot could rival a movie's ticket sales--and in at least two cases, Batman and Jurassic Park, even surpass box-office revenues. Some estimates place the overall movie tie-in business at $10 billion annually in retail sales worldwide. Entertainment executives make no bones about merchandising's importance. "It's something we all live with every day of our lives," says Richard Cook, chairman of Disney's motion picture...
Through its first three games, Lafayette has not allowed an opposing back to surpass 100 rushing yards, and has also recorded seven sacks...