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...meeting's outset, Nero distributed a three-page packet labeled in bold-face type "Questions for the Insurance Office." In the memo, Nero prepared her defense to charges leveled against her by Smith, who sent a letter to Nero's senior tutor this August recommending disciplinary action against...
...team was expected to take the league crown and compete with the elite in NCAA men's tennis. It seemed solid from top to bottom, returning number-one singles player Marshall Burroughs and a host of young upstarts. The team only seemed to corroborate those expectations at the outset: it breezed through the ECAC championships and disposed of fifteenth-ranked Texas Christian and ninth-ranked Louisiana State at the national indoor championships in early spring...
Those plans seemed more than within reach at the outset of the year. In the fall, the team won fourstraight matches against East Coast foes...
...them to put city officials in command, overseeing hundreds of contracts, rather than hand off the duties to a general contractor, who might have provided tighter management. Notes an insider: "It was raw greed. Everyone wanted a piece of the contract monies. The city lost control at the outset, and the project was destined to run amuck...
After giving up two quick goals at the outset, the Crimson settled down and established a lead it relinquished but once...