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...catalogs for you. Some lost soul at Google literally sits there and scans catalogs--J. Crew, Pottery Barn, whatever--into a computer, glossy page by glossy page, so you can have the convenience of searching them online. It's incredibly useful--fortunes have been made on ideas not one-tenth as useful. But Google does not even bother to promote its catalog service on its front page. To the Google gang, it's just a clever...
...tenth of the students in a council district must sign a petition in order to initiate a recall election. Then, a two-thirds majority must vote to actually remove the representative. If the turnout in this recall election is less than the turnout in the last general election, nothing happens...
...regard may be a little off or, at least, Harvard’s power play unit has not yet reached a level of success to match the potential Parker sees. A year ago, Harvard converted on 23.7 percent of its man-advantages, the best in the ECAC and the tenth most effective in the nation. Currently, the Crimson’s top unit has converted on only two of 16 chances—the second worst percentage in all the ECAC...
...poverty along the way. With 3 billion people living on less than $2 a day, there's a huge market for this kind of seed capital. And although microfinance institutions (MFIs) tripled the number of borrowers to 27 million from 1997 to 2001, they are still reaching only a tenth of their target audience--hence the need to scale up by tapping into capital markets, which is no easy feat...
After a slow start, the ‘B’ boat came in fourth in races four through six, and then in third in the seventh race. But that was the highest it would place, and the team ended up tenth in the last race...