Word: mismatch
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...attacked the basket with much more consistency. Freshman Evan Harris put up 10 hard-fought points against a bruising SMU frontcourt and Stehle earned six of his team-high nine rebounds on the offensive end. But Harvard could never quite match SMU’s speed and athleticism, a mismatch compounded by the Crimson’s inability to hit from beyond the arc. Harvard shot just 1-of-11 from the three-point line in the second half and was just 30.4 percent from the floor on the game, while SMU finished with a 52.7 percent clip from...
...laws.“We currently have 10 locations, and as we hope to expand, we didn’t want a name that couldn’t be protected,” said CEO and co-founder John S. Pepper.Pepper also said the name change resulted from a mismatch between what his restaurants served and what the name The Wrap portrayed, which he thought presented a major problem in attracting new customers.“Our customers told us that what we served wasn’t what they thought of as wraps,” Pepper said...
...gendarmes have weapons. The kids they face in the street have mostly stones and Molotov cocktails. It is a mismatch. But it's the cops who are the heavy underdogs--the cops and the France that the cops alone represent in those burning godforsaken ghettos where most Frenchmen dare...
...poverty in 1964. In the '70s, Richard Nixon started wars on cancer and, most memorably, on drugs. "The irony is that all of these wars on abstractions have pretty much been failures," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard. "It's a bit of a conceptual mismatch. If your roof leaks, you don't have a war against rain." Often those waging the wars request a name change. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey, who fought in Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, called the war metaphor "inadequate" for drugs in 1996: "This isn't going to be won by anybody...
...catches a lot of balls underneath, but can beat you deep also,” Yale coach Jack Siedlecki added. “He is very physical and poses a physical mismatch for many of the corners and safeties in our league...