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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...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Big Green Gets Payback in Hockey Opener | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economic Development: The Future Is Bright | 10/23/2006 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Credit Cards Soak You | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By Madeleine I. Shapiro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Band, Dawson Make Marks | 10/15/2006 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: A Rich Incentive | 9/28/2006 | See Source »

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