Word: stringing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...dealt a slew of tough-luck losses, including a string of five defeats to close out the season. After falling 2-1 in overtime on Saturday to Columbia, which had not won a league game previously, Harvard understandably believed that it had hit rock bottom...
...Hampshire call this thing early? Is Florida the be-all and end-all? Is California in play? Will it come down to Oregon, at 4 a.m. ET? How's the voting booth look out there, Reggie? And what's the deal with all those absentee ballots? The second-string cable anchors are all here, sniffing for signs and marking time until the big shots take over at 5 p.m. ET, when it'll be possible to start speculating with a straight face...
...managers and what that would mean if they were in the Oval Office. The story also includes charts of the people around both candidates who really influence their thinking. And deputy Washington bureau chief Matt Cooper, who has helped Duffy direct our political reporting, provides the latest in his string of dispatches from the trail. This one is on Ralph Nader...
...Cleveland, Ohio. Usually, his staff rents a mere midsize car for him when he travels, but when the folks at the rental counter heard it was Ralph Nader who'd be tooling around in their vehicle, they offered an upgrade. This is a rare indulgence, though, in this shoe-string campaign. Nader has no motorcade, no private jet. He travels with just one staff member, flies coach and looks more like a rumpled academic than a presidential candidate...
...strategic visionary, an operations hawk and the chief salesman--meanwhile keeping Wall Street investors happy. "You've got to get in front of Fidelity one day and Janus the next and still keep the shop running at home," says management consultant Gary Stibel. As the past year's string of departures reveals, many ceos aren't up to the task...