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This prestigious meet generally serves as an opportunity for the team to gear up and apply the finishing touches to its preparation before the Heptagonal Championships, scheduled for the end of February...
...With nearly all the boundaries removed, aggressive companies will undoubtedly try to expand into new areas. The quickest way to do that is through alliances and mergers, and most observers expect that industry consolidation--ventures linking phone companies, broadcast networks, computer firms, cable companies--will soon shift into high gear. "Companies must choose their partners in the next 12 months, because when the markets converge, anyone who's not a partner is probably a competitor," says Bill Deatherage, telecommunications analyst at Bear Stearns. The end result may be a handful of industry behemoths, each of which can offer customers...
...sight. Sure. Whether they can get you there in actuality is not important. Even if they are filling-looseners that drive like trucks on washboarded gravel roads, which most of them do, they are unbeatable fantasy machines. Land Rover, which encourages its salespeople to come to work in safari gear, admits its best U.S. customers live within 150 miles of Manhattan. Lincoln, in planning to bring out its Mountaineer model this year, found that only 15% to 18% of utility-vehicle owners ever used their machines to tow or haul anything. And as for off-road rowdiness, "They look...
Marcy didn't rest on his euphoria. He and Butler went into high gear, determined to be at least the second team to find planets around a sunlike star. They begged telescope time from their colleagues and borrowed more than $100,000 worth of computer equipment to crunch gigabytes' worth of data from observations stretching back over eight years. "We knew," says Butler, "that we could get scooped again and again by the Swiss team...
...fell short of our go, against Yale," Durkin said, "But we're shooting for Princeton and the Easterns. The nature of our training changes in January and February, where we'll be able to better gear up for races...