Word: caps
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...seized the game’s first lead on a power-play strike from Brooke Thompson, but junior Laura Brady answered with her first goal of the season to tie the contest heading into the second intermission.Rookie Cori Bassett found the net with a mere two seconds remaining to cap off the scoring.Chu’s early helper made it 25 straight games with a point for the senior, including all 20 of her appearances this season.Christina Kessler made 11 saves in her sixth win of the year.HARVARD 8, UNION 1Sifers paced the Crimson with the first three-goal...
...been blown out by Columbia, but on this night, the game was close throughout and it would be Harvard that made the final play. After Big Red guard Louis Dale made one of two free throws with 8.6 seconds left to give his team a 64-63 lead and cap a 6-0 run, Crimson sophomore guard Drew Housman drove the ball up the court. With his main option, captain Jim Goffredo, covered, Housman went right and dished the ball to Harris, who converted the baseline layup. “We were running a double screen for Jimmy...
...Bank of China (ICBC). Despite the fact that Chinese banks are known for their lack of transparency and weak management, ICBC was a wild success. In Hong Kong, its share price at one point soared 70% above its initial offering price of 39¢. That pushed the bank's market cap so high that for a while it was valued as the second largest financial institution in the world, behind Citigroup...
...acts of the new Democratic Senate a nonbinding resolution condemning a troop increase in Iraq. Others want action, not just words. On the presidential side of the party, Hillary Clinton has gone at breakneck speed from being a mild critic of the war to calling for a legislated troop cap and threatening to cut off funds for the Iraqi army. Obama and John Edwards are cheerfully one-upping her by demanding a firm schedule for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq. What happened...
...through the counterattack that would be opened up. Now, as the troops begin to enter the theater, Republicans can ask whether the main effect of these merely symbolic resolutions isn't to undermine the chances of Americans succeeding and to encourage our enemies. Similarly, the idea of a legislated cap on troop strength had seemed a good way to show real commitment to the antiwar cause. Yet actually explaining why 137,000 troops in Iraq was fine but increasing the number to 160,000 should be prohibited-- when the new commander wanted those reinforcements and said they were necessary...