Word: upstart
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...Colgate has used upset wins over the first-place Big Green and the fourth-place Saints, coupled with a 10-2-1 mark against the league’s bottom two-thirds, to move into a second-place tie with Harvard in the conference standings. Neither front-runner nor upstart, the Crimson’s upcoming opponents are studies in the final two levels of quality in the league—the opportunist and the doormat. Union is definitively the latter; the Dutchwomen are working on an astounding streak of 58 straight losses in league play, dating back to February...
...Regardless of who planted the bombs, the violence has shaken a country that had been trying to mend its international reputation following the military coup. Thailand remains a regional manufacturing hub, but competition from China, India and even upstart Vietnam is threatening profits. Complicating matters are efforts by the military-installed government to reform the finance sector in ways that may penalize the very foreign companies needed to keep investment flowing into Thailand. Proposed amendments to the Foreign Business Act, for example, could force thousands of foreign firms to sell shares to Thai locals if they wish to continue operating...
...from that battle has died down, but its significance continues to resound. For, by taking on the European political and business élite - and winning - Mittal demonstrated in a stunningly audacious way just how much the world has changed. Here was an upstart intruder from a country long classed as part of the developing world, scooping up a European gem that Dollé at one point (though perhaps unwisely, given later history) described as the Airbus of steel. And Mittal, assuredly, is but the first of many. Indians, Brazilians, Chinese, Russians and other entrepreneurs from emerging economies are now jostling...
...simple reason for this is that they have had the best programs, and the best athletes, and over the course of the grueling 14 game league schedule of back-to-back Friday-Saturday games, that quality wins out. A conference tournament would allow an upstart team, or one playing particularly well at season’s end, to score an upset that would allow them to reach the promised land, the NCAA tournament, where Harvard has not been since 1946. The Crimson, incidentally, has never won an Ivy League title...
...last season—and as the season progresses, the spot will most likely need to be solidified if Harvard hopes to climb higher than its preseason-projected seventh-place finish. Will it be Pusar, the junkyard dog, who emerges from the competition with the main role? Lin, the upstart rookie? Or someone else? Only time, and Coach Sullivan, will tell...