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Special teams play, crucial throughout the match-up, emerged as an important theme from the outset...
...outset, no one could be sure that would be so. At the close of World War II, the Soviet Union had a huge predominance in the number of troops stationed at the edge of Western Europe. For a time, the U.S. had the advantage of nuclear weapons, but not for long. Franklin Roosevelt once assured Stalin that the U.S. would withdraw from Europe within two years after Hitler was defeated. Instead, faced with the need to protect weakened Western democracies, the U.S. would embark on the Marshall Plan, a bid to make Europeans prosperous enough fast enough to keep them...
...validated its new No. 1 spot. “I thought we did a pretty good job of defending the big sheet, which is difficult to do,” Stone said. “I was just disappointed in the last 20 minutes.”At the outset, though, Harvard seemed prepared to upset the Wildcats in their first game atop the national polls. After generating several odd-man rushes out of the UNH zone in the contest’s opening minutes, the Crimson jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on junior Liza Solley?...
...left-wing New Democratic Party. The first postscandal attempt to unseat the government, in June 2004, left Martin's Liberals clinging to a shaky minority. Push came to shove in November, when Martin's 17-month-old government was shattered by a no-confidence vote. At the outset, most of Canada's chattering classes shared their PM's view that a grueling 56-day election spanning the holiday period was unnecessary, not to mention an assault on Christmas. "Ambition has overwhelmed common sense," said Martin, who had already announced he would schedule an election during the February doldrums...
...education at Harvard—for example, the Zuckerman and Reynolds Fellowships—are vital. But individual students at the College, and at all of the graduate schools, should know, too, that they will have exciting opportunities over the full course of their careers, not just at the outset, to lead across sectors...