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...Eric Borg jammed a backhander past Crimson goalie Grant Blair (32 saves) just a minute-and-a-half after that, again giving the Elis a four-goal cushion. It was the fourth consecutive time Yale capitalized on a power play opportunity...
Blue-bereted U.N. peacekeeping forces do serve as a buffer between potential combatants in a few global hot spots. Multinational U.N. forces patrol the Golan Heights and southern Lebanon, as well as the no-man's-land between Greek and Turkish Cyprus. But U.N. peacekeepers have failed to cushion nations from attack on several occasions, most infamously when the U.N. pulled its troops out of the Sinai Peninsula at the insistence of Gamal Abdel Nasser just before the outbreak of the Six-Day War between Egypt and Israel in 1967. Scoffed former Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
Within the span of 15 minutes, Hartwick tallied three times--the final goal coming on a striking full volley shot from forward Paul Cushion--to turn the game around and capture a 3-1 lead...
...contractor cost overruns is subtracted, prices for weapons and other Defense purchases prove to have "increased at about the same rate as prices of all goods in the U.S. economy." Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, claims the Pentagon used its $37 billion cushion to boost contractor profits and shuffle money to pinched programs. The inflation windfall, Aspin noted, exceeds the total $26.7 billion of cuts in weapons procurement made by Congress since...
...claim on immortality ("Now and forever" the Cats slogan boasts) or die within days. It costs so much to keep a play running--from $80,000 to $150,000 a week, not counting TV advertising--that unless the reviews are raves or a large advance sale provides a cushion, skittish investors often decide to cut their losses by closing worthy shows right away rather than struggling to survive and recoup. One sad measure of that impulse came with last week's Tony nominations: of the 17 shows nominated in various categories, three had folded the week they opened...