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...club regularly scrimmages with the women's team during its Wednesday afternoon practices. The rules are fundamentally the same for both the men's and women's sport, but men's field hockey is played at a quicker pace. "The men's game is much faster. The rules aren't quite as strictly enforced. Consequently, it's a harder hitting game, although it's non-contact like soccer," Stone explained...
Unlike UMass, which edged Harvard, 13-12, last week, Brown proved no competition for the stronger, quicker, Crimson. "We sort of blew them out," wing forward Keven Lorentsen said. "We were in better condition and were better skilled...
...British catalogue is a self-described "quick and easy reference." Choosing is made quicker and easier by rating symbols: a land mine, for instance, can bear the mark of the Queen's Award for outstanding technological achievement...
...former President blamed Khomeini, who was once his mentor, for "the appalling disaster that has befallen the country. Said Banisadr: "We must try to find a quicker way of overthrowing the absolutists who lust after power only." The remarks upset French officials, who reminded Banisadr of the terms of his exile and forced him to cancel a press conference...
...hopping is only part of the problem of excessive employee turnover. U.S. firms are also quicker to fire workers in cyclical economic downturns than are their foreign counterparts. Compare the behavior of Chrysler and Mazda when they both faced economic extinction. Chrysler fired thousands of workers; Mazda went to great lengths to keep employees with the company. If firms fire workers when it is economically convenient, no one should be surprised when American workers abandon their firms when it is economically convenient...