Word: loss
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Would the Crimson play the caliber of hockey it it is capable of, the caliber most recently evidenced in a tough loss to the Universty of New Hampshire and an early-January blowout of RPI? Would the team come out aggressive and goal-hungry only to fade in the second or third periods? Would lack of goal production continue to plague the Crimson? Would the 17 underclassmen be noticiably nervous? Would freshman goaltender J.R. Prestifillipo see youth served? Could the Crimson contain the play of Terriers standout All-American forward Chris Drury...
...most disappointing things about [the loss] was that it was a very winnable game," senior forward Joe Craigen said. "The start of the third we were right in it...and then it was just a wholesale collapse...Today, I really don't really know what happened. It just all of a sudden fell apart...[The game] was embarassing. It wasn't just a loss...
...chisel or a dressmaker's shears, conjuring up form from a lump of stone or a length of cloth. The presence of extra material expands the range of possibilities, but cutting away the extraneous is what makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says neuroscientist William Greenough of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Potential for greatness may be encoded in the genes, but whether that potential is realized as a gift for mathematics, say, or a brilliant criminal mind depends on patterns etched by experience...
...problem with the notion of monetary retribution is that Simpson insists he is broke. His friends and lawyers support this claim. They say his net worth, estimated at $11 million only four years ago, has been annihilated by legal costs, the upkeep of his large estate and the loss of the $1 million a year he once received from his contracts with Hertz...
CUPERTINO, California: Apple Computer reportedly will lay off up to 3,000 people, or some 20 percent of its workforce, and sell its floundering Newton division as the company struggles to recover from a whopping $120 million loss in the fourth quarter of 1996. Apple was forced to make the cuts after Macintosh sales flagged during the Christmas season even as the company was already anticipating a 20 percent drop in 1997 revenues to $8 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. If Apple carries out the cuts, they would comprise the second massive restructuring in two years...