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...walk around Bethpage on Thursday, it was easy to stumble into tales of woe. One guy was stuck on a bus for three hours before getting to the course, only to be told that play was canceled. Many shelled out big bucks for opening day. "I waited a year-and-a-half for this and paid $200 for a ticket, and this is what I got," says Joe Pucci, a maintenance worker from Hicksville, N.Y. "Was it worth it?" No, sir. "I'm screwed," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf Rage: First Recession, Now Rain at the U.S. Open | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...secret that one of the biggest reasons the U.S. auto industry is teetering on collapse is that, quite simply, Americans have stopped buying cars. U.S. auto sales were down 37% in March from 2008, the latest in a nearly unbroken year-and-a-half streak of falling sales. And if the cratered economy is the main culprit behind backed-up inventory at U.S. car dealers, another is that American automakers have failed to produce the more fuel-efficient vehicles that gas-price-conscious car buyers are beginning to demand. As a result, the U.S. still sends hundreds of billions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cash for Clunkers: A Green Deal to Help Detroit? | 4/15/2009 | See Source »

...companies still have an ace in the hole. The Administration cannot take Chrysler and GM (GM) into bankruptcy without the probability that it will severely undermine stimulus plans meant to save or create 3.5 million jobs over the next year-and-a-half to two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chapter 11 Still Not an Option for Government | 3/30/2009 | See Source »

...Official campus-based support for Clinton’s campaign began in January 2007, when Harvard Students for Hillary began to mobilize for what would become a year-and-a-half long primary battle...

Author: By Aditi Balakrishna and Arianna Markel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Students Formerly for Clinton Flock to Obama | 11/2/2008 | See Source »

...Having finished a year-and-a-half of service as a faculty member of the Ad Board last June, I was shocked by The Crimson’s opinion of the Ad Board (“Bad Board,” editorial, Oct. 22). First, it was simply riddled with factual errors. For example, contrary to your statement that resident deans are “outranked” by the faculty, in fact there are only two or three faculty members on the Ad Board at any time, and over a dozen resident deans; we all get equal votes. Even...

Author: By Michael D. Mitzenmacher | Title: Ad Board Editorial Flawed and Inaccurate | 10/29/2008 | See Source »

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