Word: pulling
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...auto industry in trouble. You can tell how bad each company is doing just by looking at these hard copy reports. Ford, which seems best-equipped to ride out the economic storm, puts together a forward-looking document full of boxed-off pull quotes. The more dire GM ("Recent significant declines in dealer orders are now adversely affecting first-quarter production schedules and revenue forecasts") packs its statement with charts and graphs and lots of diverting graphics. And Chrysler? It's 14-page document, half the size of the others, looks like a college sophomore's final term paper...
...selloff in the stock market yesterday, including a nearly 700 point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Harvard Kennedy School professor Jeffrey A. Frankel, who is also on the committee, said that he does not think the announcement was responsible. Though the committee does not recommend steps to pull the nation out of the recession, Poterba, Frankel, and committee member Robert E. Hall of Stanford said that policies should be aimed at creating a large stimulus to aid the ailing economy. “Many people are saying across the political spectrum that a good-old fashioned stimulus...
...gritty second-half performance allowed the Harvard men’s basketball team to pull away from Army for a 66-54 win Saturday at Lavietes Pavilion. Junior guard Jeremy Lin led the Crimson (3-1) with 24 points, and freshman forward Keith Wright had his first collegiate double-double with 12 points and a career-high 13 rebounds as Harvard outscored the Black Knights (1-5) 37-26 in the second half after being up just one at the break. Harvard overcame a rough 9-of-29 shooting performance in the first half and 17 turnovers against just nine...
...made good decisions on offense as to whether to go into transition or pull back,” Rollins said. “We really connected and had a lot of unselfish play between guards and forwards...
...Iranian love affair with yoga is a complex thing, born of many factors. There's the general disenchantment with strict, orthodox Islam and the accompanying pull to alternative forms of spirituality. There are strictures that women face in exercising outside covered, and the appeal of gentle, indoor sport. Add to all that yoga's global fashionableness and Iranians' high rates of anxiety and depression, and you have the first genuinely yoga savvy middle-class in the entire Middle East...