Word: matchup
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...easing commercial activity restrictions on 5 million acres. Fourteen energy companies worked to win exclusion of a key part of this acreage, a 100-mile-long strip of remote terrain in northwestern Montana, known as the Rocky Mountain Front, that could allow them to stake drilling claims. "The matchup was exact. His big campaign contributors got precisely the acreage that they wanted,'' insists John Gatchell, conservation director of the Montana Wilderness Association. But Burns' eagerness to return federal land to state authority has also run afoul of sportsmen in his own state and party who support preservation of federal lands...
While the team does not consider any one Yale player to be a dangerous threat in today's matchup, Harvard is concerned about the level of intensity the Yale team will have playing such a big game at home...
...Sunday, the squad will host Lafayette to finish out one of its first two game weekend schedules in recent years. While the Lafayette game is not on the same emotional plane as the Yale matchup, the team realizes that today's results will have a large impact on its performance tomorrow...
Even though the Yale game will no doubt be psychologically taxing, the team does not expect emotional fatigue will play a role in either matchup. However, the squad is unsure what to expect physically, having never played back to back weekend games...
Dartmouth edged Lafayette, 14-7. The Big Green have yet to lose out side the Ivy League, but it has yet to win in Ivy play. Dartmouth (2-2, 0-2) is set to head down to the Yale Bowl on Saturday for the lone Ivy matchup of the week...