Word: walls
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Meanwhile, Priceline.com a patented e-commerce service that lets you name your price for airline tickets, hotel rooms, cars and home mortgages and then goes out to find sellers willing to match it, went public last week, and Wall Street treated the company like a rare gemstone. Priceline.com generated $35 million in revenue last year and lost $114 million (it has pulled in $20 million in the first two months of this year), but the stock, priced at $16, was bid up to $80 by week's end. That puts the company's value at around $11 billion, worth more...
Internet startups, which took Wall Street by storm in the past few years, swept first through third places last night in the Harvard Student Agencies' (HSA) second annual Entrepreneurial Contest...
...decision to join ROTC is one of the noblest that a young person can make. Often it is a decision informed by financial considerations, but in this day and age, a hefty package of loans and a post-graduation stint on Wall Street is always an available means of funding a Harvard education. Instead of that route, ROTC students have chosen to commit themselves to the values of self-sacrifice, duty and devotion to country. They are the finest examples of good citizenship that this campus has to offer. We would only do ourselves a favor by allowing these cadets...
...challenged by what the next questions are trying to establish why inhibiting angiogenesis [growth of blood vessels] in tha wall will inhibit the disease process," Moulton said. "[The drug] may not just be choking off the blood supply...
...will go through recruiting, and the dogooders who look down upon their peers as sellouts. Tempting as it is, Harvard's success in contributing to the formation of good people and good citizens should not be measured by the number of students who choose to make careers on Wall Street. It is business, with its ethic of selfinterest, that has made the United States the world's chief promoter and defender of peace and democracy. Rather than lambaste each other for our career paths, we must do something both harder and fairer: look at the person behind that first...