Word: veteran
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Harvard's attack is led by senior Will Hench and sophomore Jon Oslowski. Hench is an All-Ivy veteran who was second on the team last year with 11 points. Oslowski is a young talent who is coming into is own after a successful freshman campaign...
...1980s, Richard Nixon bought a similar home in a similar community, Saddle River, N.J. After the initial hoopla, values throughout town edged higher, says veteran Realtor Tommi Josse, at an area Weichert Realtors office. "It added pizazz, and people wanted to move in," she declares. So maybe the Clintons have done Chappaqua a favor...
...jump today from the Auburn bridge, which Fillipino has done dozens of times, is about as routine as BASE jumping can be. But Fillipino is a veteran with 450 BASE jumps to his credit. For McGuire, who has just 45, every jump is still a challenge. And at dawn, as he gets his gear ready, stuffing his chute and rig into a backpack so it won't be conspicuous as he climbs the trestles beneath the bridge (jumping from this bridge, as from many other public and private structures, is illegal) he has entered into a tranquil state...
...fleeing at a rate of 1,000 a month; the murder rate has been more than three times as high as New York City's; and 1 of every 10 citizens is a drug addict. Government officials dispute the last claim. "It's more like 1 in 8," says veteran city councilwoman Rikki Spector. "And we've probably lost count...
Like many semiconductor companies, Adaptec contracted out fabrication of the product and concentrated on design. Fear motivated Adaptec's initial investigation of B2B software, according to Dolores Marciel, a 16-year veteran of Adaptec and its vice president of corporate procurement. The company believed that a competitor planned to build a semiconductor-manufacturing plant (also known as a fabrication plant) on its premises, thereby reducing product-development time by half. "We needed to compete or we would get killed," says Marciel. Adaptec couldn't invest the time or money in building its own plant (which on average costs $1.3 billion...