Word: upstart
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...money manager in any financial office without one of the company's distinctive, multi-screen terminals on his or her desk. The Thomson-Reuters merger, however, leaves no doubt that the two older, outflanked companies are serious about doing together what they failed to do alone: showing down the upstart. "It would take a very brave company not to be somewhat alarmed" by the tie-up says Theresa Wise, a London-based partner at consultants Accenture...
...most definitely not trying to be the center of the attention. The ref just needs to the keep the contest under control, be fair to both sides, and not miss the obvious call that could decide a game. The playoffs should be remembered for the hot shooting of the upstart Golden State Warriors, the acrobatics of New Jersey's Vince Carter, and the wizardry of Phoenix Suns' Steve Nash...
Both will be on the sidelines for the Ivy Championship Series this weekend, which pits surprise Gehrig Division champ Penn against Rolfe Division upstart Brown. The Quakers, at 12-8 in Ivy play, finished one game up on Princeton, while Harvard, which also checked in at 12-8, wound up two games back of the Bears...
...upstart company providing the technology, Netvibes, announced yesterday the creation of more than 100 “universes,” widget-packed portals tailored for users such as washingtonpost.com addicts, Mandy Moore fanatics, or, in this case, Harvard students...
...with beer cans and stolen Kong signs, Lincoln’s Inn—the former home of a now defunct social group—was one of the only places on campus where students could escape the Bar at a bar. But since HL Central—an upstart networking group founded in 1999—merged with Lincoln’s Inn Society on March 20, the character of the building is in for a renovation. It was “a space that [was] not clearly Law School,” said Brandon L. Douglass, a second...