Word: tacking
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From that point on, however, it was almost all Big Green. Dartmouth would tie the score before the period ended, then tack on four second-period goals to put the game out of reach...
...Cells AG, based in Thalheim, has taken a different tack. "We thought it was better to concentrate on one step," says Stefan Lissner, head of investor relations. Three of the company's four founders came from Solon AG, a solar-module company based in Berlin. Unhappy with the quality of the cells they were able to purchase, they decided to make their own and founded Q-Cells in 1999. Located in the economically depressed former East Germany, Q-Cells has 869 employees and four factories, and currently plans a fifth. It will need one, with revenues projected to increase...
Another addition is a fee for foreign-currency conversions. It has long been thought that the smartest way to purchase goods overseas is with a credit card because you'll get a fair deal switching from, say, dollars to euros. That may still be true. But many cards now tack a 3% conversion fee on top of the profit built into the conversion rate...
...another record Saturday, but this time it was not just senior running back Clifton Dawson leading the way.At halftime, the Harvard band put on a show that included the largest baton ever, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records, at ten feet.Dawson was the next to tack a record onto his already impressive resume. With 3:44 left in the third quarter, the back ran for his 52nd career rushing touchdown, tying him with Brown graduate Nick Hartigan for first on the all-time Ivy League list. The win was also Harvard head coach Tim Murphy?...
...deterrent. In any case, UHS officials should continue to monitor the dinka rate and students’ responses to paying the fee, and they should adjust the charge accordingly. We do have a particular concern in the implementation of UHS’s billing students. UHS currently plans to tack the fee onto students’ termbills, which is a reasonable way that many Harvard departments charge students necessary fees. The Office of the Registrar, for example, term-bills add-drop fees. But if a $10 charge for, say, a missed mental health appointment, appears on a student?...