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Meanwhile, GM is playing catch-up in the hot market for hybrids because it has been losing sales to Toyota and Honda. The Japanese companies began developing hybrids in the '90s, when Detroit scoffed at the technology as economically unviable. "GM's reasoning with hybrids was, Why bother when trucks are selling?" says Matheson. Toyota put hybrids on the market even when the company knew they wouldn't make money right away. "Detroit doesn't think that way," Matheson says. Both GM and Ford are coming to market with their first hybrid models, while Toyota and Honda are already selling...
...CORNELL 4, HARVARD 3With a one-goal lead at home against the No. 3 Big Red, and with just over 10 minutes left to play, Harvard had the upper hand.But two Cornell goals less than three minutes apart gave the Big Red a 4-3 victory Friday night.After playing catch-up and turning over the puck for much of the third period, Cornell (4-2-0, 3-1-0) took a timeout at 13:41.The Crimson led 3-2, but just over a minute later, Big Red defenseman Doug Krantz pounced on a dribbling puck near Harvard?...
...pretty quick,” Johnson said. “I didn’t see it coming. It looked like everything was going well—we were playing well.” The tide had somehow turned, and the Crimson ended the contest trying to play catch-up. “[The Big Red] got a little momentum, had some sustained pressure and some bounces go their way, and they got two goals,” Daigneau said. “It’s a tough way to lose.” —Staff writer...
...third period, the Crimson exploded for 13 shots to the Big Green’s eight, evening the game tally at 22 a piece. Nick Coskren’s goal at 1:59 in the third period gave Harvard a comfortable 4-2 advantage and forced Dartmouth to play catch-up. “The fourth goal goes in and they’re up by two and you have to open it up,” Gaudet said. “[They] got up on us and we had to try to open it up and it allowed them...
...Crimson played catch-up for most of the game, thanks to a goal only 6:20 into the contest from Yale’s Liam Leonard. Yale added to its lead with a score from Jon Carlos about five minutes before halftime...