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...shutting her off and closing in quickly whenever she did get the ball.” The strategy paid off for 76:57, until Spuehler, flustered all day by the Harvard game plan, emerged from above the Harvard circle with the ball. Despite her exhaustion, Spuehler found an extra burst of speed and closed in on Connolly all alone. Charging out of the net to cut down the shot angle, Connolly could do little as Spuehler darted to the right and tucked the game winning goal into the back of the net. Coming into the game, history seemed...
...strategy paid off for 76:57, until Spuehler, flustered all day by the Harvard game plan, emerged from above the Harvard circle with the ball. Despite her exhaustion, Spuehler found an extra burst of speed and closed in on Connolly all alone. Charging out of the net to cut down the shot angle, Connolly could do little as Spuehler darted to the right and tucked the game winning goal into the back...
...execs in Chicago last March in his capacity as Fed official, Bernanke parsed the dynamics in the economy and their policy implications. The speech echoed some familiar warnings by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, particularly the prediction that the housing bubble is unsustainable, and while it's unlikely to burst, it will likely deflate slowly, bringing returns on property investments gradually more into line with the more modest gains yielded by other assets...
...took over at the Fed just two months before the 1987 stock market crash, will step down on Jan. 31. By then, many believe he'll have finished his nearly two-year campaign of boosting short-term interest rates from the historic lows reached after the Internet bubble burst in 2000. If so, Bernanke would take the helm with the benchmark fed funds rate at about 4.5%, considered neutral in terms of growth, leaving him with plenty of immediate operating room-and just possibly a stock market finally getting some lift...
...Kiama blowhole, south of Sydney, tourists watch from a discreet distance as geysers of spray burst from a hole in the cliff top. Growing up in the area, Tom Denniss was fascinated by these eruptions, caused when waves rushing deep into a cave force a mix of compressed air and water out through a gap in the roof. Now, a few miles south of Kiama, in the industrial city of Port Kembla, Denniss and his company, Energetech, are using the principles of the blowhole to turn wave energy into electricity...