Word: nickel
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...allow Harvard to run as much on first and second downs. Looking back, the Palazzo-Leiszler combination was the fuel of the offensive fire in the first half. Second, Rahne stepped up did a phenomenal job of exploiting the Crimson's more conservative and injury-riddled secondary in nickel coverage...
LaHaie was also a big part of Harvard's nickel coverage. The starting secondary of Niall Murphy, junior Willie Alford, senior Mike Brooks, and junior Andy Fried did not allow a long passing play the entire...
...Right now our secondary is really a strength," Murphy said. "With as much three or four wide receiver sets as you're going to see, your nickel team is a big part of your defense and we're fortunate to have five or six of these guys...
...fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...
...justification for building bigger locks is simple: time is money. Supporters, including farmers and such commodity heavyweights as Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and ConAgra, say the time saved on a trip down the river could generate an extra nickel or dime of profit on every $2 bushel of corn floating down the Mississippi. "I produce about 100,000 bushels of grain a year, and 5[cents] on each one is a pretty good chunk of change that goes straight to my bottom line," says Gregory Guenther of Belleville, Ill. The river, 22 miles from his 1,000-acre farm...