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...know we could have done better this week,” she added. Hazlett’s first-round score of 75 left her in a tie for second place on Saturday, and she was able to card a relatively consistent score of 77 yesterday despite much tougher wind conditions. “I would say that my game is pretty well-rounded right now,” Hazlett said. Yesterday’s high winds made the already long Springdale Golf Club play even longer than it had on Saturday. The wind also made the course?...
...committee of British M.P.s Thursday to explain the Bank's handling of the crisis - the first run on a U.K. lender in living memory - King finally opened up. The Governor, the bank's former chief economist and an academic who's taught at Cambridge, Harvard and MIT, first got wind of problems at Northern Rock on Aug. 14. The Newcastle-based bank - Britain's fifth-largest mortgage provider - leaned heavily on wholesale money markets to fund its own mortgage loans. When those inter-bank markets started to freeze up in recent weeks amid a global credit squeeze triggered...
Undergraduates have long been the University’s staunchest environmental advocates. It was students who worked to ensure the 2004 adoption of the six guiding "Sustainability Principles" for the Allston development. Soon after, students passed a referendum that called for an optional wind-energy fee to be added to their term bills. Despite a prompt veto of the measure by the University administration, students voted green again in 2006, demanding emissions reduction targets for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) through another College-wide referendum...
...each of these cases, student support for environmental responsibility has been effective in creating substantial change on campus. The Sustainability Principles signed by then-University President Lawrence H. Summers continue to guide planning strategy in Allston; the 2005 wind referendum resulted in the University-supported Green Crimson Renewable Energy Fund; last year’s vote prompted the creation of the energy task force planning FAS emissions reductions...
...Virgin over the level of fuel surcharges started months before Walsh took control. As soon as the OFT informed BA in mid-2006 that it was investigating the company, the airline cooperated with the investigations. (Virgin, whose legal team first contacted the OFT about the scheming once it got wind of the problem, should escape any fine as a result.) Still, it's hardly reassuring that staff at BA thought it a smart idea to collude with the company's fiercest rival. Is there a problem with values at the carrier? "That wasn't anything that...