Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maggie Vaughan, Julia French, Lynn Frangione and Co-Captain Katie McAnancy teamed up to counter the speed of the Lady Greyhound's offense, bullying them out of the shooting fan and taunting them with interceptions...
...past, the team has worked on improving defense, counter-attack, and, this week, playing in a narrow pool. Harvard is a fast team, and therefore has a disadvantage playing in smaller pools like the one at MIT. The Crimson's performance at MIT shows that its work has come to fruition...
...experiment five times before it worked. They did not even attempt to detect any neutrons being given off. And Georgia Tech's effort, patched together with deuterium from a local chemical outfit and palladium ordered from a Chicago precious-metals dealer, had a serious flaw. The neutron counter that indicated fusion was apparently not working properly. Said team leader James Mahaffey to the Atlanta Constitution: "I have really been in agony. The announcement was impetuous. The problem is that this is like a race." Even Pons' appearance in Dallas was marred, when some members of the audience sharply questioned...
...corporate behemoth, branching into real estate, supercomputers and restaurant and hotel management as well as a variety of information services. Stock in the expanding conglomerate was closely held until October 1986, when shares in its real estate subsidiary, Recruit Cosmos, were publicly listed on Tokyo's over- the-counter market. Those shares became a new and virtually cost-free vehicle for peddling influence...
Granted, Mlot-Mroz's politics are reprehensible. A self-described Polish freedom fighter, Mlot-Mroz--who is a frequent counter-demonstrator at Boston-area leftist protests--is little more than a thinly-veiled fascist...