Word: mismatch
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Cowan recognized the mismatch immediately and launched a high-arching pass deep into the back left corner of the end zone. But Butler’s coverage was perfect and he knocked the ball away from Lawrie before the tight end had a chance to make the play...
...paper, this was a greater mismatch than South Bend Central facing Hickory High, with no Jimmy Chitwood in sight...
...Schwarzenegger victory the start of something big or just a fluke? Does it tell us something about all of us or merely about the mismatch between a popular movie star and a despised Governor? The answer is yes to all of the above. California's recall was laughed at by the rest of the country as being self-indulgent and not serious, a freak show with porn stars, washed-up celebrities and anyone else who could scrape together a $3,500 filing fee and 65 signatures on a petition. It started as a partisan diversion, fueled by conservative radio hosts...
...started. Ron Adams is a retired Army lieutenant-general who acted as deputy to retired Army General Jay Garner, chief of the reconstruction effort in its first months. Says Adams: "There were some of us saying, right from the get-go, 'We think there's a troops-to-task mismatch here--I'm not sure there are enough troops to maintain security.'" Ibrahim al-Janabi, of the Iraqi National Accord (I.N.A.), says that in early March, I.N.A. leader Ayad Alawi, who now sits on the Governing Council, met with top U.S. officials, including Rumsfeld, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice...
...many three receiver sets, a safety is forced to defend the third wideout, though their coverage skills are usually not as refined as those of cornerbacks. Opposing quarterbacks often try to take advantage of the mismatch, expecting a defensive miscue...