Word: buffering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Elis built a 10-point buffer with just 2:38 remaining, it looked as if they had weathered the Crimson storm. But two Greg Wildes free throws with 54 seconds left brought Harvard to within three. Eleven seconds later, the cagers got the ball and a chance to narrow the difference to one. But, just as at similar points throughout the year, the ball refused to fall for the Crimson, and Yale hit the free throws that put the game away...
...first half of play both squads seemed equally matched on man-to-man defense. The Huskies gained momentum in the last two minutes of the period and carried a nine-point buffer into the second half...
Cicero can claim some recent ethnic diversification. About 5,000 Mexican Americans live on the shabby eastern edge of town, a sort of buffer with black west Chicago. Some 400 Asians live in Cicero as well. "Slant-eyed people may look funny," says a white Cicero truck driver, "but they work hard, stick to themselves, and keep their places clean...
...eventually regained the lead, the second-half tempo was established and it didn't favor the slower Cadets. Sharpshooting freshman forward Greg Wildes took over where Trout had left off, piling in points with 20-ft. baseline jumpers he sank like layups. When he began rebuilding the Harvard buffer. Wothke knew he had to make a move...
...supplies into the Indonesian jungles: "Suddenly the people are feeling that they must throw out everything from the past and learn everything new." In rebuttal, missionaries argue that evolution toward modern ways is inevitable and that they can buffer the struggles more humanely for the tribes than would land and mineral developers...