SPORTS
By HEATHER A. DINICH | October 17, 2007
So ... the football stadium wasn't packed for the Georgia Tech game and Terps coach Ralph Friedgen wasn't happy about it. He's said it twice now (once on the radio after the game, and again yesterday). The announced attendance for that game was 47,527. Byrd Stadium seats 51,500. The biggest gaps seemed to be in the nosebleed sections. Friedgen was asked yesterday what his program needs to do to pack the stadium. "I don't know," he said, "especially after beating [Rutgers], the 10th-ranked team in the nation.
BUSINESS
By William Patalon III | May 9, 1999
Help others and you'll help yourself is more than just a slogan at RWD Technologies Inc.It's the business model and the mantra.RWD develops technologies and training programs that help employees of its big-name customers do their jobs better -- which, in turn, helps performance and profitability.But employees and managers say that simple statement doesn't capture the energy and innovation that are fueling RWD's growth.The Columbia company has racked up average annual sales gains of 40 percent over the past five years.
NEWS
By David Folkenflik | December 30, 1999
WASHINGTON -- As far back as 1996, still something of the Dark Ages for Y2K awareness, Congress had a scold when it came to "the millennium bug": Maryland Rep. Constance A. Morella.An "impending crisis," the Montgomery County Republican said in 1996. "The deadline we face is unforgiving, and time is running out," Morella said in 1997. "The mother of all computer glitches," she proclaimed in a 1998 radio address.More than three years and $106 billion later, things are looking rosy enough that public fears of terrorist strikes appear to outweigh doomsday scenarios of crippling computer failures.
SPORTS
May 9, 1998
Quote: "The bottom line is that we're getting behind and we're having to play catch-up. We're just in one of those little streaks right now when a lot of good things aren't happening." -- Rangers manager Johnny Oates on his team's having lost five of six games and having hit .219.It's a fact: The Mariners went 2-for-19 with runners in scoring position Thursday night against the Blue Jays.Who's hot: The Indians' Omar Vizquel, who went 2-for-5 last night, is hitting .325.Who's not: The Rangers' Aaron Sele (5-2)
SPORTS
By Stan Rappaport | March 15, 1998
In a perfect world Oakland Mills would have played its finest game of the season last night in the Class 1A state championship against Williamsport.It didn't happen. Not by a long shot.But the Scorpions did something more important than look good. They won."It was an ugly game but a win is a win," said Oakland Mills senior point guard Jamie Beale after her team defeated the Wildcats of Washington County, 38-31, at UMBC."I wish yesterday's [Friday] game was today's, but you know we won, and that's the bottom line," said Oakland Mills coach Teresa Waters, whose team played splendidly in routing Rising Sun, 56-27, in the state semifinals.
SPORTS
By Stan Rappaport | March 15, 1998
In a perfect world Oakland Mills would have played its finest game of the season last night in the Class 1A state championship against Williamsport.It didn't happen. Not by a long shot. But the Scorpions did something more important than look good. They won."It was an ugly game but a win is a win," said Oakland Mills senior point guard Jamie Beale after her team defeated the Wildcats of Washington County, 38-31, at UMBC."I wish yesterday's [Friday] game was today's, but you know we won, and that's the bottom line," said Oakland Mills coach Teresa Waters, whose team played splendidly in routing Rising Sun, 56-27, in the semifinals.
BUSINESS
By Sean Somerville | July 26, 1998
Fifty thousand dollars is hardly a bottom-line number to stir investors into a frenzy.But Environmental Elements Corp. hopes that modest annual profit -- a penny a share -- marks the beginning of hard-won resurgence after five difficult years.The Baltimore company fell into the red in 1993 as the huge market expected for air pollution control equipment never materialized. The $50,000 profit marked the company's first operating profit since 1992.To pick itself up, EEC cut more than half of its 340 jobs, retooled its U.S. business and struck licensing deals to snare overseas business.
SPORTS
November 23, 1998
The winners"My line played exceptional and also Eric Green and Roosevelt Potts. I knew we would play a very good game because we were focused. We all came as one and were ready to play." Priest Holmes, Ravens running backthe losers"The bottom line is you have to win the football game. That's all that matters. We had to find a way to get the ball into the end zone." Paul Justin,Bengals quarterbackPub Date: 11/23/98
FEATURES
By Susan Reimer | October 11, 1998
I HAVE rediscovered the joys of Crock-Pot cooking. Or should I say "discovered." My Crock-Pot has been sitting on a basement shelf since I received it as a gift sometime in the 1970s. Didn't we all get Crock-Pots back then? And Belgian waffle irons and crepe pans and woks?Anyway, a Crock-Pot wasn't much use in my carefree, childless, young professional days. What do you need a Crock-Pot for when you can dine out with friends or throw together a salad at home?But I have a couple of teen-agers now, and I order my life around their busy schedules.
NEWS
By George F. Will | June 22, 1997
WASHINGTON -- From Pasadena's Colorado Boulevard to downtown Monticello, N.Y., and from controversies about coffee shops in various American neighborhoods to stiffening resistance to a single European currency and other devices of European unification, many apparently dissimilar skirmishes are actually aspects of a single quickening argument about the proper jurisdiction of politics.These skirmishes are facets of a revolt against economics, and a reassertion of the sovereignty of politics.