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...know what happened," he mused. "All winter long we're selling SUVs, and no one ever asks about the gas mileage. But this week practically everyone who came in here wanted to know, 'What gets the best mileage?' We've never had that happen before. I had nine Civics on the lot last week. I have one left, and I don't know if Honda can make them fast enough...
...manufacturer; in Seattle. Familiar with fiber glass from his work building animal cages, he sensed that the material could produce faster skis than the wood and metal ones then available. Introduced in 1964, the skis became favorites of Olympic and world champions and helped turn K2 into a winter-sports titan...
...Goldman Sachs.These scandals, and the Faculty of Arts & Sciences’ ousting of President Lawrence H. Summers, have made 2006 a nightmarish year for Harvard’s public relations. Yet, inevitably, 20,000 over-achieving high school seniors will try to climb into our Ivy Tower next winter, U.S. World & News Report’s ritual crowning of Harvard will stabilize our jolted foundations, and most of our graduating class will exit Johnston Gate with promising jobs. For Harvard is Harvard: the most famous college in the world. When my brother and I met a beautiful Italian waitress...
...colleagues labor in cavernous horizontal tunnels that are bored into the granite mesas. To the worker, the test site represents not a nuclear underworld but a well-paid job. "You get used to it, feels like home," says Don Maxwell, 44, an underground surveyor. "Nice and warm in the winter, cool in the summer...
...country. But that does not mean that social life takes a backseat. “You learn as much outside the classroom as inside,” says Blackley. BUSINESS AND PLEASUREWith the constant pressures of networking and recruiting, socializing is hard work for HBS students. From November until winter break, firms arrive on campus to give company presentations. Business is always mixed with pleasure at HBS—firms follow up their presentations with open bars, cocktail receptions, and dinners where upper-level directors wine and dine in the hopes of attracting top talent to their firms...