Word: toughest
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Fresh off the victory, Harvard entered the toughest stretch of games on its schedule. The team fought to close losses against top-20 teams from Boston College and Northeastern, but struggled in a 5-1 defeat to perennial powerhouse Princeton. The Tigers went on to win their fifth consecutive Ivy title with an undefeated league record and made its third straight Final Four appearance...
Still, says Schrempp, "our toughest times are ahead." Last year, in a move that still draws an angry reaction from Schrempp, DaimlerChrysler was refused admission to the Standard & Poor's 500 index--important because inclusion would make the company's stock a must-buy for many money managers. The majority of the company's shareholders are now in Europe, though the largest stake is controlled from Kuwait. Another concern is contract negotiations this summer with an increasingly feisty United Auto Workers union. In Europe the economy still trails Schrempp's ambitious expectations, and so do sales of the Smart...
...Indonesians last year overthrew longtime strongman and U.S. ally President Suharto, setting the stage for an election that has inevitably opened old wounds. Suharto's handpicked successor, President B. J. Habibie, faces his toughest challenge from an opposition coalition led by Megawati Sukarnopurti -- the left-leaning daughter of President Sukarno, who was overthrown by Suharto in a bloody coup in 1965. Still, says Dowell, "Habibie can't lose -- he's the approved candidate of the military, which keeps 238 of the 500 seats in parliament for their own appointees." The military orchestrated Suharto's ouster in the face of mass...
...form in trouble. Yet the irony is that these lines are spoken in a play that is drawing near sellout crowds on Broadway and at the end of a season in which serious dramas have made a remarkable comeback. The new shows this season with the toughest tickets aren't the big splashy musicals (most of them were big splashy busts) but straight plays--especially revivals of two old-fashioned, slow-moving classics, Death of a Salesman and The Iceman Cometh...
...most searing impressions from many hours of big-shot interviews are that persistence pays, and that the toughest part of any important decision is overcoming the omnipresent skeptics. There's simply no substitute for believing in what you do. Still, I found it strangely heartening to learn that billionaire investors face the same nagging questions as any novice buying 100 shares of America Online. Here are some lessons to draw from Masters...