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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Cheung, Sullivan, and current Vice Mayor Sam Seidel are the likeliest to not succeed, since they are the three preliminary winners who received the fewest votes...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Council Race Nears Conclusion | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...three candidates declared elected on the first count—incumbents Timothy J. Toomey, Jr., Henrietta Davis, and current Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons—are the likeliest to officially emerge victorious...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: City Council Race Nears Conclusion | 11/5/2009 | See Source »

...fellowship program, Harvard expected 25-30 Chileans to be enrolled. In effect, the agreement calls for doubling the number of Chileans at Harvard. Of the 27 Chileans at Harvard as of last full count, 14 were in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, which is also the likeliest future beneficiary of the new agreement. If Chile and Harvard succeed in also enrolling students in schools such as Education, Design, and Public Health, as the agreement proposes, that would be especially welcome because, in 2008-2009, there were no Chileans in degree programs at Harvard in Education or Public Health...

Author: By JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ | Title: Investment for the Future | 10/8/2009 | See Source »

Right now the interest rate on a 10-year Treasury bond is about 3.5%. That could go lower - in fact, it did go lower at the height of the panic last fall, to just above 2%. But the likeliest future path for Treasury yields, Atteberry figures - on the basis of history and the fact that rates have been kept low this year by Federal Reserve purchases, investor demand and other factors - is up. If you own a 10-year Treasury bond yielding 3.5%, interest rates rising to 4% or 5% or higher mean your bond (with its rate stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thought Bonds Were Safe? Think Again | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

...going to have to sit through some defeats, some victories and a championship match, which of course turns out to be scheduled for the same night as one of Bliss' beauty pageants. Barrymore does a capable job with these action sequences, although tiny little Page is not the likeliest of derby contenders and the sport has such a cartoon aspect that it seems about as likely to become a national craze as Barrymore's Toronto hair style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whip It: Drew Barrymore, Director and Roller Derby Girl | 10/1/2009 | See Source »

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