Word: pulling
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Sophomore forward Dan Clemente added 20 points and shot 4-of-7 from three-point range as the Crimson built a 10-point halftime lead then posted a 14-6 run over the final 4:50 to pull away from the Bears 80-62 on Sunday...
...momentum Harvard may have carried into halftime disappeared quickly in the opening moments of the second half. Brown opened the period on a 12-2 run to effectively put the game out of reach for the Crimson. Harvard did pull within six at 65-59 on junior guard Courtney Egelhoff's two free throws with 2:23 left to play. But Brown freshman point guard Emily Troupe connected on a three-pointer on the ensuing possession to dash the Crimson's comeback hopes...
...White House spin all year, repeated five times daily like a call to prayer, is that the President is going about the people's business, not obsessing about his legal defense. But he doesn't need to pull every lever and push every button in order to control the campaign machine. After two elections and a full year of fire by trial, says a top aide, "we know what he wants, when he wants it, and how he wants...
Although many local elections are flawed and even precooked, "they produce a push-pull process that is changing people's relationship with local politics," says the Carter Center's Charles Costello...
...first grade and an increase of 10 min. a night for each grade after that. But the point is not simply to fill up a set amount of time. For preoccupied teachers, admits Michelann Ortloff, a Portland school official and former elementary school teacher, "it's always easy to pull a few things out of the workbook, give them to students and say, 'This is your homework.'" Too many teachers send kids home with mind-numbing math worksheets that are not even reviewed the next day. Too many are enamored of those unwieldy "projects" that seem to exasperate kids more...