Word: core
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...past few years, one only needed to look at the antics of Peter Angelos and the Baltimore Orioles and realize that money does not buy success. And even as the payroll of the vaunted New York Yankees ratcheted ever skyward, at least Yankee fans could point to the core of their team as homegrown--Andy Pettite, Mariano Rivera, Bernie Williams and, of course, Jeter...
...December 12, just hours before the 124-year-old safe harbor dried up, this democracy looked to have gotten the president half of it wanted and the Supreme Court all of it deserved. The slenderest conservative majority of five declared the Florida game over, with a hard Scalia core shouting additional insults at the local referee. And the four liberals mourned that the fight for lost votes and elusive truth was called off cynically, with a few ticks still left on the clock...
...undergraduate will know, the quarters spent on copying books left on reserve for Core classes, on laundry machines and on candy bars after missing dinner add up. Library fines are one more cost of the already expensive Harvard education, and an unnecessary one. The library is not funded by these fees, and the only explanation given is uniformity. In this case, the only uniformity that is relevant is the uniform burden the extra quarter per day the new policy will put on students. Harvard Faculty, reject this recommendation or send it back and ask for a better rationale. The students...
Such an electronic balloting system would provide rapid and nearly, if not entirely foolproof, ballot counting and certification. The system could be set up to keep a list of voters and whom they voted for. Hard-core civil libertarians might contest the possibility that such a system wouldn't maintain voter anonymity. But stipulations could be legislated to prevent disclosure of this information except in the event of a court order based on substantiated allegations of voter fraud...
...pulls together for an album, thus raising each member's visibility and bolstering the branding strength of Wu-Tang, Inc. It then launches a new crop of Wu-branded products. The cycle repeats. It resembles a concept called the virtual corporation, in which a company maintains just a small core and outsources everything else. During a three-year hiatus after their 1997 record-setting double album Wu-Tang Forever, the group's Wu-Wear clothing line hit $15 million in annual sales, a new Wu comic-book line briefly nudged out X-Men for the top spot in the country...