Word: upstart
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With Dartmouth’s win at Yale on Saturday, the Crimson was forced to hold serve against the upstart Bears in order to stay within a game of the Big Green. Holsey said she was not surprised a sufficiently talented Brown team had upset Dartmouth the night before...
...phone companies with a sense of foreboding. Especially unnerving was the announcement earlier this month that 130-year-old AT&T, the American former monopoly carrier that not long ago was the oldest, biggest and baddest telecom firm on the planet, was about to be swallowed up by upstart regional player SBC?providing a sobering reminder that in the information age, no institution is too big to fail if it squanders its competitive edge. "Technology is advancing fast," says Shuichi Deguchi, senior manager of NTT's broadband-Internet promotion department. "A complete transformation is required to make sure we stay...
...today the L.S.E, the battleground for many a corporate takeover, is itself about to be taken over - and neither of its two main suitors is British. Deutsche Börse, operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange, has proposed a $2.41 billion bid to buy the L.S.E. And Euronext - an upstart rival that runs the Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon bourses - is drawing up a counteroffer. Both parties met last week with L.S.E. chief Clara Furse, who is expected to make a decision with her board as early as this week. The anticipated sale has ruffled feathers on both sides...
...their indie credibility; they get immediate critical attention, but won’t be thrust so far into the limelight as to lose their private lives. And it’s not as though Death Cab, Ben Gibbard’s day job, has been a young upstart act anyway. These guys are old hands on the circuit, as close to an establishment as indie gets. (In fact, they just announced a new deal with Atlantic, so you can scratch the indie label entirely.) The Postal Service project was hyped from the outset...
What a difference a year makes. Dartmouth, the upstart Ivy League favorite, sits atop the preseason standings, a spot Harvard had been accustomed to occupying. The Crimson hopes to extend similar courtesy to the Big Green. In the second slot, the squad certainly has the talent to do so. Surprise defending champion Penn and Brown round out the top four. But don’t look twice–sleeping giants await in New Haven...