Word: foiling
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Dole has declined to step down from the majority leader's post, which carries stature and affords him free television exposure as President Clinton's foil on Capitol Hill, and he refuses to delegate more authority to his top deputy, majority whip Trent Lott. Now, though, the pressure on Dole is rising. Having lost the balanced-budget battle and becoming desperate to show voters what they stand for, Republican lawmakers return to Washington this week, after a three-week break, to find a Senate schedule devoid of anything except votes on funding the District of Columbia and the Whitewater investigation...
...Quakers quickly rebounded with a 77-63 victory over the Crimson on Saturday night. Despite a 25-point effort by senior Mike Gilmore, who was named to the Ivy League honor roll for the week, Harvard was unable to foil Penn's dynamic duo of Ira Bowman and Tim Krug...
...This year we [epee] have been about average. Foil is usually the strongest," Baez said. "We just had an amazing...
While Notre Dame only beat Harvard by a single point, Penn won more convincingly. The Crimson fell in foil 7-2, epee 5-4, and sabre 6-3. Still, the team was pleased with its performance...
...match-ups of the day, the Crimson could only muster a victory in one, epee against Notre Dame. But even the strength of the epee's 7-2 performance could not compensate for sabre's crushing 8-1 defeat, coupled with foil's 4-5 loss...