Word: off-guard
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...pestering him with an extra player rushing into the backfield and sticking his receivers with man coverage.Neither strategy was as effective as Harvard would have liked. Junior Gino Gordon and rookie Treavor Scales had modest success running the ball for the Crimson, and Winters occasionally caught Holy Cross off-guard with designed quarterback run plays and improvised scrambles. But for the most part, the Crusaders kept Harvard’s ground game in check. On defense, the Crimson had trouble breaking through a stalwart Holy Cross offensive line, and while the Harvard defensive backs played solidly, even the tiniest...
...country’s energy crisis is a prime example of this societal contrast. Because of poor infrastructural planning, the government has been caught off-guard by the spike in demand for energy accompanying increased population growth. To conserve energy in the summer months, when temperatures regularly exceed 100 degrees Fahrenheit, it has instituted load-shedding, or nationwide rolling blackouts. I was told to prepare for the worst load-shedding to date, with blackouts nearly every other hour. I heard about struggling families relying solely on candlelight to run their households. This is no way to live, but in theory...
...into the Medicare system, private insurers early on declared their (albeit qualified) support for President Obama's health-reform effort. So when word came last month that the Democrats were drawing up a new public-relations battle plan, the insurance companies were sent reeling - and seemed to be caught off-guard. A late July memo from the House Democratic leadership about how to sell reform during the congressional August recess told members, "Hold the insurance companies accountable." House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called private insurers "villains," and President Obama, in an exclusive interview with TIME, framed his push for changes...
...this way, the president protected the existence of moderate Republicans, keeping his party diverse and balanced. However, there is no such central authority in today’s Republican Party. This lack of leadership and unity is apparent in Specter’s switch (which caught Senate Republicans completely off-guard) and makes the party’s weaknesses painfully evident...
...Association of University Presses. The AAUP’s recently-published survey reported that its member presses’ sales in both units and dollars are down roughly 10 percent for July through December of 2008 from the same period in 2007. Maco said that HUP was not caught off-guard by the recession, and has not had to rethink their plans, as they were anticipating a shift in the publishing market. “With the rise in popularity of digital content, the publishing industry’s sales had been seeing drops even before the recession...