Word: containers
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...England hooligans still cause mayhem outside stadiums, but the Premier league has managed to contain the violence inside by retrofitting stadiums American style, with assigned seats instead of terraces for standing, and by offering more season-ticket plans. Yet the learning curve has been tragic. A brutal 1985 melee in Brussels, in which Liverpool fans charged at supporters of Italy's Juventus, left 39 people dead in the panic. Nearly 100 fans died in a crowd-control disaster in Sheffield...
...three Blade films had his work cut out for him on Trinity—it was his first mainstream directing job and it will probably be the final chapter in the popular Blade series. Yet, even at the end of a long day of press interviews, he can barely contain his excitement...
...meantime, administrators and students are looking toward converting underused spaces such as freshman dorm basements into meeting areas for student groups to satisfy the space demand. Hilles, which will contain some student space after its renovation this summer, has also been cited as a potential solution...
...starter—sophomore forward Bennet Davis—held to only 21 minutes while battling foul trouble for much of the game and faced with a Harvard team that held a major advantage in size, Northeastern was forced to call on freshman forward Shawn James to try to contain the Crimson...
...Iraq to crush a growing insurgency in multiple locations at the same time. But officials believe they won't actually face that challenge. As messy as the Sunni triangle and Mosul now appear, so long as the insurgency doesn't ignite a nationwide conflagration, the Pentagon believes it can contain the threat. "What we're trying to do in the short term, through the elections, is make sure that there are no no-go zones," says a senior Western diplomat in Baghdad. "To the extent possible, we [will] attrit their capability to launch violent attacks...