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With the heaviest lifting behind it, Philips needs to address its underperforming share price: the stock has slid 20% on the Amsterdam bourse since July. Citigroup analysts are bullish, however, calling Philips "a growth company masquerading as a restructuring story." Whatever happens, Philips has faced tougher times. Just a short drive across town from the Eindhoven plant, you can visit the company's first factory, where beginning in 1891 it manufactured incandescent lightbulbs for ships and hotels. Back then, the company needed to churn out 500 each day to turn a profit. At the start, it could manage only...
...room,” Hunt said. Last year’s speaker, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and former Crimson editor Nicholas D. Kristof ’82, further praised the choice. “She’s a terrific choice because nobody has faced a tougher challenge in administering a country, and so far, she’s doing a great job at an impossible task,” he said...
...clean sweep with another 8-6 victory—a moment savored by the whole team. “It was a great moment,” Rueb said. “We were all excited to watch them do it.” While the singles proved tougher, the Crimson was too cool for the Bearcats. Kumar defeated Levy 6-1, 6-4 at No. 1, followed by an Omodele-Lucien win at No. 4, 6-3, 6-4. Harvard sealed the match with Ermakov at No. 2, in a straightforward 6-4, 6-2 win, establishing...
...fourth in the Ivies, while pulling down 6.4 boards per game, second most in the Ivy League. “He’s an inside-outside player,” Amaker said of Baumann. “So he’s a bit more of a tougher match up in that regard because he scores in a variety of different ways.” Ivy League play has been rough on the Crimson so far this season, but Harvard has a chance to put an end to its league troubles by knocking off two of the hottest teams...
...voted Republican. And more good news: both Obama and Clinton are very good candidates who hold similar positions on most issues, moderates who intend to reach out to Republicans after they are elected - although, given Clinton's undeserved reputation as a partisan operative, that may be a tougher sell for her than for Obama. But this is not a struggle for the ideological soul of the party. It may, however, be a struggle for the party's demographic soul - older voters vs. younger, information-age workers vs. industrial and service workers, wine vs. beer. There is also - and I will...