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...visitors were forced to play catch-up hockey for all but a few minutes of the game Defenseman Rick Valdarchi gave Princeton its first lead just 67 seconds into the contract when he slapped a high one from the right point past Crimson goalie Grant Blair...
...power and flood control for the beleaguered farmers of the Hill Country--people long forgotten by the powerful Texas utility interests. When Johnson ingratiated himself with construction company executives and "wildcatter" oil millionaires in order to finance Democratic efforts in Congressional elections, he was merely helping the Democrats play catch-up in a game of campaign financing in which the Republican Party had a long-established lead...
Such remarks can only fuel the arms race, not stop it. The Soviets have played catch-up before; if forced, they will do so again. Reagan is squandering a rare opportunity to improve U.S. Soviet relations. And unlike the movies, diplomacy usually doesn't allow a second take...
Harvard switched from club to varsity level in 1980, and it's the need to play catch-up that has kept Harvard second to Brown. There have been no special signals sent out that water polo is any different from the other non-glamor teams that win in the obscurity of Harvard. As a result, attempts to recruit have had little luck: Couch Pike tells how one year he wrote to 18 application who had some polo experience to tell them about the program. Of those 18 three ware accepted; of those three two chose Suuford and one went...
...Crimson aquamen, who won half of their four contests, were in trouble from the start. Engineers George Jaquette and John Friedman combined to give Harvard a 3-1 deficit midway through the first quarter, and the hosts played catch-up the rest...