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Even though the scoreboard gave Harvard an impressive win over the only team in New England to earn a postseason bid last year, Coach Bob Scalise was not entirely satisfied with his squad's showing--especially a first-half letdown which enabled Springfield to come back from a 3-0 deficit...
...worry about a letdown after a big game like Yale," Harvard Coach Bill Cleary said. "But we came out and played well...
Coming off an incredible upset of a tough Penn team, the men's team suffered an emotional letdown Saturday and lost its first match of the season, 20-7, to the traditional Ivy-powerhouse Lions...
...especially outstanding because we beat Brown when they had a good night," Delaney Smith said. "I felt that Brown was a better team than Yale, but there is always a tendency to have a letdown after a big win like we had on Saturday...
...corporations face risks even as they reap the rewards of Star Wars. The program could be scaled back or scuttled by the next Congress or President. "Companies can get geared up for a letdown," says Paul Nisbet, who follows the defense business for Prudential-Bache Securities. Also worrisome is the mounting opposition to SDI at the universities where much of the basic research will be done. Campus critics, including many scientists, argue that Star Wars is technologically unworkable and wasteful: a pie in the sky and a pork barrel on the ground...