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...right now,” Crimson coach Traci Green said. “We’ve been fighting extra hard, and [we’re looking to] continue with our energy.” HARVARD 7, CORNELL 0 After easily defeating Columbia the day before, Harvard ran the risk of overlooking a less talented Cornell team. But the Crimson buckled down and took care of business by sweeping all six singles matches and taking the doubles point.“Obviously our goal is to secure the Ivy League title, but we’re doing a good...
...record since the Apollo program? Reduced funding tells part of the story. The space program received around $40 billion a year (adjusted for inflation) in the mid-1960s, which was at least four percent of the federal budget. But, back then, Americans also had a much greater tolerance for risk: The first successful Apollo mission was launched just eight months after the three astronauts in Apollo 1 died during testing. NASA’s tighter leash today means that riskier programs like nuclear-powered spacecraft don’t make it off the drawing board. Ultimately, NASA?...
...stress in the debt and swap markets. In December and January, Harvard completed $2.5 billion in bond sales to guarantee cash flexibility and refinance risky variable rate debt.According to the report, disruptions in the tax-exempt variable rate debt markets last fall “increased the perceived risk that Harvard could experience a failed remarketing of its debt.” While no such failure occurred, the disruptions hampered the University’s liquidity position by forcing it to keep cash on hand to meet possible calls on its variable rate and commercial debt obligations.Harvard is reported...
...half in light of their respective financial statuses, legal dependents, and work situations—and the sums of these factors are leading to different decisions.Otto F. Coontz—assistant to the resident dean in Adams House—said he feels secure enough about his job to risk turning down early retirement. Houses are not feeling as much pressure to downsize as academic departments, and Coontz said that if he worked in an office with more staff and felt more expendable, the package would have presented a greater dilemma.“I don’t think...
...European military analysts, who say that the gap in military capability between the United States and Europe has grown so big that in some places battlefield communication between NATO forces and their US allies has become difficult. "It is such a deep divide that there is a risk that NATO will become an irritant for the Americans, rather than a partner of choice," says James Arbuthnot, a British Conservative Party politician who chairs the Parliament's select defense committee. The apparent problem-free warmth between Obama and other NATO leaders over the state of the alliance, he believes...