Word: cutoffs
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Grounders were routinely bobbled and kicked, fly balls were misjudged and cutoff men overthrown. Onlooking junior varsity players groaned, wondering if the team would finish with more errors or runs per game—and sadly, the answer was usually errors...
...frustrating that they could score that much on baserunning,” Walsh said. “But we just need to execute better—the pitchers need to get the ball to the plate quicker, the catcher needs to make a good throw, and on the cutoff play Farkes just has to learn to come through the ball a little bit more...
...there is still a lot of work to be done on both sides. Jan. 27 is just an update, not a cutoff date. The inspection process should continue. It's good the Americans are putting the heat on the Iraqis, and that has yielded results. And I think that pressure should continue. But anybody who understands inspections understands that it takes time. The Security Council understands that this should take something like a year...
...allies to the starving communist nation, North Korea upped the stakes: This week Pyongyang announced that it planned to restart a nuclear power plant closed down under the 1994 agreement because it was producing weapons-grade plutonium. Although they said the move was necessitated by the cutoff of fuel supplies, the North Koreans' implied threat was underscored when they demanded that the International Atomic Energy Agency withdraw monitoring equipment from the plant used to help determine if a power plant is engaged simply in energy production or producing extra plutonium for weapons...
According to the report, raising the cutoff would “discourage ‘average’ students from attempting a more challenging program...and may simply increase the pressure [on professors] to give magna-level grades and thesis readings...