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...certainly not too low. All while Lidle and his instructor were apparently trying to peer through the clouds to see the sights of New York before they headed on their cross-country trip to California. If not exactly a recipe for trouble, there wasn't much of a safety cushion...
...ball over the leap of her own keeper and into her team’s own goal. “It was an odd play, but own-goals happen and that’s soccer,” Lau said. “It was a definitely a cushion, a nice thing for us.” The Crimson welcomed Devon Sherman back into the starting lineup after the freshman midfielder, who started the first five games of the season, sprained her right ankle on September 15 against Penn State. But a scary moment for another of Harvard?...
Softening home prices pose a bundle of problems. Not least is that millions of people borrowed heavily against their homes as values rose in recent years. Many figured that prices would keep shooting higher and allow them to preserve their home-equity cushion even as they took funds out. That game appears to be over. Tapping deeper into your home equity now could leave you short of your goals if your plan is to sell, buy smaller and live off the difference. Meanwhile, downsizing in a weakening market could take many months and net less than you might imagine...
...salvo midway through the first half with a blast from the edge of the penalty box that beat Maine (0-5) goalie Giacomo Brunino, and the Crimson rolled from there to its second straight 3-1 decision.Freshman Adam Rousmaniere added a second first-half goal to give Harvard the cushion it needed as play tightened considerably in the second half. In the latter frame, Hahn—who is entrenched at starting goalie for the first time in his career—had to make two saves but was unable to turn away a third offering. By that time, however...
...markets would have hardly batted an eyelash at the loss of Prudhoe Bay, which accounts for less than 2% of daily U.S. oil consumption. But with production and refining not nearly keeping up with worldwide demand, these days every drop of oil is instantly snapped up, leaving little cushion. "It used to be when something went wrong, prices would move by pennies, nickels and dimes," says Larry Goldstein, president of the Petroleum Industry Research Foundation in New York. "Today, when something goes wrong, the price moves by dollars...