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...Sunday, the wind came up and unfortunately we’re a small team,” Watson added. “Big wind has been our weakness all season...
...excited to race.”The varsity eight repeated the performance in the afternoon, reaching the line five seconds ahead of the Big Green and nearly seven seconds ahead of Notre Dame. The morning’s conditions were fair with sunny skies and a light wind that built as the day progressed making for choppier water—and tougher conditions— for the midday races.“The afternoon was a little rough. Clear skies and warm weather is nice, but the actual racing conditions were a bit tough.” Larsen-Strecker said...
...With a peal of laughter, Felicity spurred her horse and tried to catch up to The Stable Boy. The ripe sun beat down on them as they galloped. Felicity could feel the sweat trickling down into her decolletage as she rode, and the wind tumbled her hair into glorious disarray. The half-tamed stallion coursed beneath her. “Onward, Zalathal!” she urged, striking the crop against the Spanish steed’s rippling rump...
...West Hollywood sun is beating down on the patio, a cold wind is blowing through, and Richard Branson is hosting a long lunch poolside at the Sunset Marquis hotel. "It's an old rock-'n'-roll hotel, which has--it's gone out of fashion a little bit, I think," he says. The Rolling Stones and U2 are regulars; Courtney Love wrote a love letter to Kurt Cobain in one of the suites. It's exactly the setting you would expect from the self-styled "rebel billionaire," the man who signed the Sex Pistols and the Stones to Virgin Records...
Companies are putting real resources into these efforts. North Shore--LIJ Health System, for example, plowed about $10 million into worker training and tuition reimbursement last year. People at all levels are encouraged to expand their skills, which is how employees who start out as secretaries or housekeepers eventually wind up as technicians on surgical teams. That helps lead to a one-year retention rate of 96%, besting the industry-average 88%, and, ultimately, to better care for patients, says chief human-resources officer Joseph Cabral, who likes to display a chart that shows patient-satisfaction scores rising with employee...