Word: catch-up
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...will be to get points on the board early, get the momentum going in Harvard's direction to force the opposition into playing catch-up ball, and then wait for the defensive talent to develop...
Tsongas, however, has grown accustomed to his current catch-up position--he came from behind four years ago to beat the Republican incumbent for the right to represent Massachusetts' Fifth District in Congress. But as he pointed out three weeks ago, that time he campaigned for 21 months and still only had to win over the residents of a single district. This time has has only five months to convince the six million people throughout the state to vote...
...first half did not come as easy, as Princeton enjoyed a 3-1 lead until halfway through the opening stanza, when the stickmen played catch-up berserk style, scoring four goals in a little over a minute and a half. Egasti, Gordie Nelson, Bobby Mellen and Mr. Faught did the honors. That made...
...coal strike so curtailed electricity that national production showed little growth. Otto Eckstein, head of Data Resources, Inc., calculates that real Gross National Product rose only 1.5% in the first quarter. With the snow melted and miners back at work, Eckstein thinks real G.N.P. will show a catch-up surge of 7.5% from April through June. For the year, real G.N.P. is still likely to rise around 4.5%. The trick will be to keep inflation from speeding up in the spring as it did in the winter...
...develop their own ideas for planning, they have to be able to work closely with the faculty." Although the faculty-student ratio worsened, William A. Doebele, professor of Advanced Environmental Studies in the Field of Implementation, says it was a "temporary dilution--there's been an enormous catch-up in the last two years...