Word: year-end
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Nothing could dampen the spirit of the Harvard wrestling team, even when its first tournament of the season turned out to be a far too crowded affair. The Crimson, which ended a historic season last year with three wrestlers qualifying as All-Americans and with its highest ever point total at the year-end national tournament, launched its season at the East Stroudsburg University (ESU) Open with a mixed group of battle-tested veterans and newly recruited talents. On a Saturday morning at Koehler Fieldhouse, sophomore J.P. O’Connor, the only Harvard freshman to earn All-American honors...
...retailer is known for its cheap casual and college-themed clothes and was looking for a way into athletic footwear when it got word that Marbury also wanted to market an inexpensive shoe. The privately held company had 120 outlets before the Starburys launched; it will have 270 by year-end. Its president, Andy Todd, admits margins are "tight" on a $15 sneaker, but the company controls costs by spending little on advertising, for example--letting the stars generate the buzz...
...additional gloomy economic news undermining the can-do confidence Sarkozy had sought to instill in the French public. In September, it was announced that the nation's slowly shrinking unemployment rate had reversed course and increased slightly during the previous month to nearly 8.1%. Later, word came that the year-end economic growth the government had hoped might reach 2.5% was set to increase only 1.8%, in part due to French businesses continuing to create few new jobs...
...year. The first one set a Harvard single-season home run record. The third set an Ivy League record for most blasts in one game. In the following contest, the Crimson beat Dartmouth, 2-0, riding the bat of Murphy once again. Her fourth-inning longball came in one of the few at-bats in which she was pitched to, but it was enough to give Harvard its only runs of the day. It was her 17th round-tripper of the year, good for a new Ivy League single-season record. The list of year-end accolades was, naturally, very...
...Bauer, two of the three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, bestowed annually upon the sport’s top player. Both entered the game among the nation’s leading scorers and with reputations as the most polished veterans in the country. Although Chu prevailed in the year-end award voting, it was Bauer who made the decisive play in the rink. Wisconsin had controlled the run of play throughout the game by dominating time of possession, cycling the puck out of the corners and working along the perimeter of the zone. Martin was able to stifle...