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...after the game, he was quick to give credit to the rest of Harvard’s defensive staff, which was able to make some adjustments and come up with a new scheme for foiling the Brown passing attack...
...whole because it means that we’ll be represented at the Singlehanded Nationals,” Watson said. The New England Women’s Singlehanded Championship, which was held in Bristol, R.I., was a series of individual races, though Watson still gives her team credit in her success. “That result reflects a lot of the training we’ve been doing as a team,” Waston said. “It’s an individual result, but it’s the result of a team effort...
...Leone said. “And I think Gina’s starting to learn the strengths of Sheeleigh and vice versa, so they are running off of each other very well.”After her fifth shutout of the season, sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Mann gave the credit to her defense. “This definitely is a whole new team from last year,” she said. “The defense is amazing. Obviously today I didn’t really have to do much.” While Mann might have been able to relax...
...first got wind of problems at Northern Rock on Aug. 14. The Newcastle-based bank - Britain's fifth-largest mortgage provider - leaned heavily on wholesale money markets to fund its own mortgage loans. When those inter-bank markets started to freeze up in recent weeks amid a global credit squeeze triggered by the subprime mortgage crunch, so too did the source of 75% of Northern Rock's funds. "At that point," King said, still hopeful the market would step in to help out the troubled bank, "there didn't seem much point in blowing up the train before...
...Fast-forward a month, however, and things looked grim. Still short of credit in those tight money markets, Northern Rock had little choice but to approach the Bank of England for cash. And that - the emergency credit that King duly put up - was supposed to be that. It wasn't. Far from reassuring savers, the central bank's efforts amounted to "the equivalent of screaming fire in a crowded cinema," offered John McFall, chairman of the Treasury select committee. King could hardly quibble with that, but coming to his own defense, the Governor made clear it hadn't been...