Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goals knocked off Lehigh Wednesday. Princeton survived a scare against Penn Sunday, taking sixty-nine minutes to get on the scoreboard, prevailing 1-0. Senior midfielder Jesse Marsch, the Ivy League's current scoring leader (15 goals, 5 assists for 35 points), will finish up his college career on Tiger turf. He turned in one of his best performances of the season against Adelphi Wednesday, notching a hat-trick and an assist to move atop the scoring list. IVY STANDINGS IVY OVERALL Team W L T PCT Brown 6 0 0 1.000 14 1 0 933 Cornell...
...million people are unemployed, while 100 million others are underemployed. The Chinese feel alienated from the government because of pervasive official corruption and memories of the 1989 suppression of the pro-democracy movement. If the communists are to maintain stability after Deng dies--if they are to ride the tiger, as they put it--then the leadership must find a new way to inspire loyalty and cooperation from the mass of ordinary Chinese citizens...
...have some say in public affairs and see some evidence that their leaders respect them. It is a commonplace that all-powerful, charismatic Mao and Deng were in the tradition of China's Emperors. Jiang Zemin and his rivals are mere politicians. They must be responsive ones, or the tiger will toss them off its back...
Suddenly, Harvard was on top of the world. All the whistles blew the Crimson's way, as the players in white grabbed every loose ball and checked every Tiger advance, sometimes amashing against the ground...
Well, almost every investor. Last year Steinhardt hit a speed bump, as did most other big hedge funds like George Soros' Quantum Group and Julian Robertson's Tiger Management. Neither however, suffered as badly as Steinhardt's funds, which lost 29% of their value during 1994, owing largely to the plummeting price of European bonds, in which Steinhardt had invested heavily. Says he: "I made a vast amount of money in 1993 on the same bet. Nevertheless, the pain in 1994 was far greater than the pleasure...