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...line of scrimmage, you definitely have to be creative,” Murphy said. “It wasn’t comfortable play-calling because it’s a lot more comfortable when you’re controlling the line of scrimmage.” The payoff three plays later, with less than a minute to play in the half, removed the last ounce of comfort from the 10,680 fans in attendance at Goodman Stadium. That’s when it became clear to Lehigh fans that it wasn’t just the quarterbacks that...
Epperson, a correspondent for CNBC, is the author of The Big Payoff: 8 Steps Couples Can Take to Make the Most of Their Money--And Live Richly Ever After (Collins...
...literacy and 90 min. on arithmetic. Science is no longer taught as a stand-alone subject. "We had to find ways to embed it within the content of reading, writing and math," says principal Rafael Sanchez, with some regret. Social studies is handled the same way. The payoff for this laser-like attention to reading and math: the school went from failing in 2004 to making AYP and earning a high-flying "performing plus" designation by the Arizona department of education last year...
...After his first day walking house-to-house, Brooks said he had gathered no intelligence about the insurgency in Ghazaliya. But that wasn't the point. "I'm not looking for an immediate payoff," he said. "[I'm looking] to influence the population so that they aren't complicit with the insurgency, so if they do have good information, they'll call...
...payoff is being seen in longer and better-quality survival. According to the American Cancer Society, the percentage of people living five years after a diagnosis of any type of cancer barely budged from 50% in the mid-1970s to 52% in the mid-'80s, but it shot to 66% for patients with a diagnosis after 1995 and is continuing to rise. For breast cancer patients the five-year survival numbers leaped, from 75% in the '70s to nearly 90% by 2002. Receiving a diagnosis of cancer - and seeing that cancer return - is always a terrible blow. But in fact...