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...rough opening minutes of the game doomed the Crimson, as the Cougars buried Harvard well before the first media timeout. In those defining minutes, Charleston picked up a double-digit lead, while the Crimson struggled to find its shooting game...
...defining feature of football. "Even in a good year, when you go 10-6, you are going to lose about 40% of your games," he says. So Kraft went long in his management approach. A paper-industry magnate, he says football has a lot in common with the rough-and-tumble paper trade, in which shifting commodity prices can quickly turn gains into losses. But having the right system in place brings profits in the long term...
...ventricle, which is its main pumping chamber. Increased muscle mass is fine in the biceps, but it's bad in the heart, which must be lean and flexible to work as it should. Worse, if a person with hypertension has high cholesterol, the deteriorating condition of vessel walls creates rough spots that serve as toeholds for circulating fats. As fat collects into plaques, they can break free, particularly if vessels are repeatedly being slammed by blood rushing out from the overworked heart. Breakaway plaque can lead quickly to a heart attack...
...ever finished? Decades after Star Wars and its two sequels were released, George Lucas updated the special effects of some scenes. He said he was "completing" the films, although he hadn't told the hundreds of millions who bought tickets to the original movies that they were watching a rough...
...word) describes a harrowing series of events that had her risking her life in the name of science. “I don’t know if any of you have ever run on recent lava flows, but it’s kind of rough,” she says nonchalantly...