Word: bulldoggedly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind that eccentric entrepreneur is a bulldog competitor and a sore loser. Virgin usually wins because Branson can do the mundane spectacularly well and because he has an almost unerring ability to connect with consumers, particularly younger ones. Those business instincts are matched by an ability to motivate people who work for him. And who wouldn't want to--Branson seems hell-bent on making sure that everybody, but everybody, is having as much...
...doubles, the Bulldog's team of Thomas Dupree and Dan Healey beat freshmen Mike Passarella and Elliot Weiss, 8-4. At the No. 2 spot, the No. 33 ranked doubles team Matt Ballay and Mattias Karlson duplicated that result for the Bulldogs, triumphing over sophomores Thomas Blake and Philip Tseng...
Meanwhile, on the first court, Blake was battling the Bulldog's Dupre, the ninth ranked collegiate singles player in the nation...
Harvard's best chance to do that came midway through the second half, when senior Erin Cleary had a free-position shot with Harvard down 7-5. Yale goalie Alison Cole--only a freshman--made the save, and only 36 seconds later Bulldog Katherine Koegler sidearmed a shot past senior Harvard goaltender Shana Barghouti...
What this meant was that Harvard couldn't take advantage of Yale's own passing woes, which were much greater than Harvard's. Especially in the first game, the Elis would score a side out even if their passer misdirected a serve receive, because Bulldog dinks and rolled spikes found their way to the floor too often...